Das Ich und das Es

Leipzig, Wien, Zurich: Internationaler Psy, 1923. FIRST EDITION. With 1 woodcut diagram. Bound into modern cloth-back boards; an excellent copy with pencil annotations in the text. First edition of the author's fundamental contribution to psychoanalysis. In this work, Freud formulates his revolutionary tripartite theory of personality, based on his earlier discovery of repression and of the unconscious complexes which influence the conscious mind. It is also here that the concept of Superego, the agent which coerces the self to meet learned standards and ideas, is introduced for the first time.

Grinstein 10482; Heirs of Hippocrates 1129.