"FREUD’S LAST MAJOR CONTRIBUTION TO PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY": FIRST EDITION OF HIS LANDMARK THE EGO AND THE ID, 1923
FREUD, Sigmund. Das Ich und das Es [The Ego and the Id]. Leipzig, Wein, und Zurich: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer, 1923. Octavo, original stiff yellow wrappers, uncut. Housed in a custom clamshell box.
First edition, in scarce original wrappers, of Freud's groundbreaking work, whose revolutionary "theory proved so convincing… [that] since 1923 all of psychoanalysis has been ego psychology," handsomely housed in a custom clamshell box.
"Freud's last major contribution to psychoanalytic theory was The Ego and the Id" (DSB). It is here that Freud "first proposed the tripartite division of the psychic apparatus into id, ego and superego. This… theory proved so convincing that it has maintained itself ever since. Hence, properly speaking, since 1923 all of psychoanalysis has been ego psychology" (Fine, 293). In addition to introducing these new terms and a structural theory that served as foundation for much of his work, The Ego and the Id fundamentally "allowed critics to rethink the nature of the artist" and to reformulate an understanding of culture (Makaryk, 321). Published same year as cloth edition, no priority established. Text in German. Advertisement leaf at rear. Grinstein 10482. Norman F105. See PMM 389. Half title with loss to upper margin (most likely to excise a signature).
Text fine, tiny closed tear to lower edge of rear wrapper. A very elusive about-fine copy in fragile original wrappers.