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The Ego and the Id (Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud)
The Ego and the Id - Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud Author:Sigmund Freud, Joan Riviere (Translator), James Strachey (Editor) The Ego & the Id ranks high among the works of Freud's later years. The heart of his concern is the ego, which he sees battling with three forces: the id, the super-ego & the outside world. — Of the various English translations of Freud's major works to appear in his lifetime, only one was authorized by Freud himself: The... more » Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud under the general editorship of James Strachey. Freud approved the overall editorial plan, specific renderings of key words & phrases, & the addition of valuable notes, from bibliographical & explanatory. Many of the translations were done by Strachey himself; the rest were prepared under his supervision. The result was to place the Standard Edition in a position of unquestioned supremacy over all other existing versions.
With a biographical introduction by Peter Gay.« less