Reading in dreams and symptoms the wishes we do not know we have.
Works, testimonies and further readings are distinguished. Dates refer to composition or first publication, as specified in each entry.
These records present three works that frame Freud’s thought: the dream book, the theory of sexuality and the late essay on civilization. The case histories, the papers on technique and metapsychology, and the correspondence are not yet indexed. Freud revised his books from edition to edition, so check which edition and which translation you are reading.
011900
Published in Vienna by Franz Deuticke in November 1899 but dated 1900, the book grew out of Freud’s self-analysis after his father’s death in 1896 and out of his letters to Wilhelm Fliess. Its epigraph from Virgil announces the plan: if I cannot bend the powers above, I will move the underworld. It sold slowly at first, and Freud kept enlarging it in later editions until 1930.
021905
Published in Vienna in 1905, the same year as the Dora case history and the book on jokes, it was, together with the dream book, the work Freud revised most heavily. The editions of 1910, 1915, 1920 and 1924 added the theory of libido, the pregenital phases of organisation and many footnotes, including one of 1920 that calls the Oedipus complex the nucleus of the neuroses.
031930
Written in the summer of 1929 and published in Vienna by the Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag with the date 1930, the essay continues The Future of an Illusion of 1927, which had prompted Rolland’s letter. Its working title spoke of unhappiness rather than unease; Joan Riviere’s English version of 1930 gave it the title Civilization and Its Discontents.