TRANSLATOR’S NOTE

Das Ich und das Es was published in 1923 by the Internationaler Psycho-analytischer Verlag, Vienna. I was able to discuss the translation of this very obscure book with the Author, and became responsible for it, so that it bears my name. The actual version which follows, however, though drafted by me, has been worked over by three people. Dr. Ernest Jones as Editor has given it his usual care; Fräulein Anna Freud has corrected misapprehensions and also referred to the Author several doubts that arose; but if the translation attains any exactness in rendering the Author’s thoughts and intentions, this is almost wholly due to Mr. James Strachey’s sedulous and discriminating exertions in aid of clear elucidation of the text.

J. R.

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