An Outline of Psychoanalysis

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"An Outline of Psychoanalysis" was never completed. Freud, returning to an earlier project of providing an overview of psychoanalysis, began writing it in Vienna in 1938 as he was waiting to leave for London. By September 1938 he had written three-quarters of the book, which was published in 1940, a year after his death. Composed of three sections, the "Outline" opens with a description of the psychic apparatus, including its spatial organization and differentiation into agencies. The ego, which develops through contact with the outside...