The Ego and the Id

Translated by Joan Riviere. Revised and newly edited by James Strachey.

From the cover: The first edition of this book, which is an English translation of Das Ich und das Es (Vienna 1923), was published by the Hogarth Press in 1927. The last of Freud's major theoretical works, it is concerned with mental structure and functioning. Apart from presenting, with new terminology, a threefold division of the mind, it contains important discussions of the concept ‘unconscious' and the genesis of the super-ego. The dichotomy between Eros and the death instinct, introduced in Beyond the Pleasure Principle, is elaborated here; the relations between the two classes of instincts and the divisions of the mind are considered, as well as the interrelations between these divisions themselves with special reference to the sense of guilt. For thepresent edition the translation has been extensively revised and an editor's introduction, two appendices and many explanatory notes and references have been added as well as a full bibliography and index.

London. The Hogarth Press And The Institute Of Psycho-Analysis. 1962. 83p. CONTAINS MARK-UP