19 BERGGASSE, VIENNA Freud's home and consulting rooms from 1891 to 1938 The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud Volume VII (1901 - 1905) A Case of Hysteria Three Essays on Sexuality and Other Works TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN UNDER THE GENERAL EDITORSHIP OF James Strachey IN COLLABORATION WITH Anna Freud ASSISTED BY Alix Strachey and Alan Tyson VINTAGE BOOKS London THE HOGARTH PRESS AND THE INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS
Published by Vintage 2001 22 Translation and editorial matter Copyright @ The Institute of Psychoanalysis 1953 This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition, including this condition, being imposed on the subsequent purchaser First published in Great Britain in 1953 by The Hogarth Press Vintage Random House, 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SW1V 2SA www.vintage-books.co.uk Addresses for companies within The Random House Group Limited can be found at: www.randomhouse.co.uk/offices.htm The Random House Group Limited Reg. No. 954009 A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 9780099426585 Penguin Random House is committed to a sustainable future for our business, our readers and our planet. This book is made from Forest Stewardship CouncilĀ® certified paper. NIX Paper from responsible sources FSC www.fsc.org FSCĀ® C018179 Printed and bound in Great Britain by Clays Ltd, Elcograf S.p.A. CONTENTS VOLUME SEVEN FRAGMENT OF AN ANALYSIS OF A CASE OF HYSTERIA (1905 [1901]) Editor's Note Prefatory Remarks page 3 7 I The Clinical Picture 15 II The First Dream 64 III The Second Dream 94 IV Postscript 112 THREE ESSAYS ON THE THEORY OF SEXUALITY (1905) Editor's Note 125 Preface to the Second Edition 130 Preface to the Third Edition 130 Preface to the Fourth Edition 133 I THE SEXUAL ABERRATIONS 135 (1) Deviations in Respect of the Sexual Object 136 (A) Inversion 136 (B) Sexually Immature Persons and Animals as Sexual Objects 148 (2) Deviations in Respect of the Sexual Aim 149 (A) Anatomical Extensions 150 (B) Fixations of Preliminary Sexual Aims 155 (3) The Perversions in General 160 (4) The Sexual Instinct in Neurotics 163 (5) Component Instincts and Erotogenic Zones 167 (6) Reasons for the Apparent Preponderance of Per- verse Sexuality in the Psychoneuroses 170 (7) Intimation of the Infantile Character of Sexuality 171 v
134 THREE ESSAYS ON SEXUALITY It must also be remembered, however, that some of what this book contains-its insistence on the importance of sexuality in all human achievements and the attempt that it makes at enlarging the concept of sexuality-has from the first provided the strongest motives for the resistance against psycho-analysis. People have gone so far in their search for high-sounding catch- words as to talk of the 'pan-sexualism' of psycho-analysis and to raise the senseless charge against it of explaining 'everything' by sex. We