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FREUD (SIGMUND)
Aus der Geschichter einer infantilen Neurose, FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, Leipzig, Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1924

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FREUD (SIGMUND)

Aus der Geschichter einer infantilen Neurose, FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on front cover "Frau Dr Lillian D. Power /zur Erinnerung / an ihre Analyse / beim Verf / 1925"), uncut and unopened in publishers' printed tan wrappers, slight chipping to fore-edges, spine ends chipped and neatly restored, preserved in solander box [Grinstein 113; Jones II, pp. 306-312; Norman F107 (this copy)], 8vo, Leipzig, Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1924

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THE NORMAN COPY OF FREUD'S CLASSIC "WOLF MAN" CASE STUDY, INSCRIBED TO A FELLOW PSYCHOANALYST. The case was "the most elaborate and important of his case histories, [and] provided conclusive evidence of the existence of infantile sexuality by illustrating the uncovering of infantile neuroses through analysis of later adult ones... Freud used this case as support for his criticisms of Jung and Adler" (Norman F95). The patient was a young Russian aristocrat who had suffered severe neurosis since a bout of gonorrhea at the age of seventeen. Freud discovered that he had developed a fear of wolves at the age of four, after suffering various sexual episodes, followed by a some years of religious-related neurosis. The case history was first published in the fourth of his series of collected papers on the subject, Sammlung kleiner Schriften zur Neurosenlehre, 1918.

Provenance: Dr. Lillian Delgar Powers (Vice-President of the American Psychoanalytic Association, member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society, author and authority on red squirrels), presentation inscription from the author; Haskell F. Norman, bookplate; his sale, Christie's, 29 October 1998, lot 1369.

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