Signed book: Neue Folge der Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die Psychoanalyse [New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis]. Vienna: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1933. Hardcover, 5.5 x 8.75, 254 pages. Crisply signed on the first free end page in fountain pen, “Sigm. Freud, 1932.” Autographic condition: very fine. Book condition: VG-/None.
This book was a follow-up to his 1916 Introduction to Psychoanalysis, one of his most popular and influential works. The first book contained twenty-eight lectures that outlined his views of the unconscious, dreams, and the theory of neuroses, and this 1933 work comprised an additional seven lectures, numbered 29–35, as Freud intended them to complement those in the earlier volume. Freud's New Introductory Lectures offered clear accounts of his latest thinking on the subjects of dreams and anxiety, and he updated his theory on the role of the super-ego in lecture 31. The year 1933 marked an important point in both the expansion and suppression of Freudian psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic societies and institutes were founded in Holland, Norway, and Jerusalem, while at the same time the Nazis rose to power in Germany and targeted Freud's books among those they burned and destroyed. A rarity in signed books, this is a superior example of Freud's autograph.
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