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PRESENTATION COPY OF STUDIES ON HYSTERIA. FREUD, SIGMUND. 1856-1939. BREUER, JOSEPH. 1842-1925. Studien über Hysterie. Leipzig and Vienna: Franz Deuticke, 1895. image 1
PRESENTATION COPY OF STUDIES ON HYSTERIA. FREUD, SIGMUND. 1856-1939. BREUER, JOSEPH. 1842-1925. Studien über Hysterie. Leipzig and Vienna: Franz Deuticke, 1895. image 2
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PRESENTATION COPY OF STUDIES ON HYSTERIA.
FREUD, SIGMUND. 1856-1939. BREUER, JOSEPH. 1842-1925.
Studien über Hysterie. Leipzig and Vienna: Franz Deuticke, 1895.

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PRESENTATION COPY OF STUDIES ON HYSTERIA.

FREUD, SIGMUND. 1856-1939. BREUER, JOSEPH. 1842-1925. Studien über Hysterie. Leipzig and Vienna: Franz Deuticke, 1895.
8vo (215 x 145 mm). Modern three-quarter Morocco, retaining original front wrapper, shaved at the margins, with very minor loss to inscription.
Provenance: Sigmund Freud, presentation inscription to: Fanny Bardas (1848-1937, patient of Freud's and family friend).

IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY FOR FRIEND-PATIENT FANNY BARDAS OF ONE OF FREUD'S MOST IMPORTANT WORKS, THE FOUNDATION OF PSYCHOANALYSIS. Fanny Bardas (nee Klein) entered therapy under Freud in 1893, apparently after the death of her second husband Dr. Moritz Bardas and was under analysis with him from 1899 forward. She makes numerous appearances in his Notizbüchlein, where she is sometimes identified as "Frau C," and in letters as "Frau Ch." Interestingly, she is also referred to as "friend and patient" revealing a bit of Freud's early attitude toward keeping practice and family separated. The Freud family and the Bardas family remained friendly for many years, and the Bardas's appear throughout the family correspondence.

Freud and Breuer's Studien über Hysterie contains "the first detailed account of the free - association method, [AND] is customarily regarded as the starting-point of psychoanalysis" (Norman). "It was through devising the new method that Freud was enabled to penetrate into the previously unknown realm of the unconscious proper and to make the profound discoveries with which his name is imperishably associated" (Jones I, p.265). Presentation copies of this important work are exceedingly rare. We trace no copy at auction since the 1998 Norman sale. Garrison-Morton-Norman 4978; Jones Life and Work I; Norman F25; See also: Hirschmüller & Tögel. Sigmund Freud Notizbücher, 1901–1936. Tübingen, 2022, 1.28, 1.45, 11.11, 11.29, 11.30; Ludwig-Körner, Christine. "Die Familie Bardas und ihre Beziehungen zur Familie Freud," Luzifer-Amor 70, 2022, pp 196–208.

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