ABSTRACT

The English translation, although substantially from the printed German original, contains a number of emendations made by the author at Freud's suggestion. Some of these relate to matters of fact, and others to matters of opinion. Shortly after the work was published, Wittels sent Freud a copy of it, and on December 18, 1923, Freud wrote Wittels a letter of acknowledgment from which, with Freud's express authorisation, the following extracts are here translated: