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8vo. Bound in publisher's original grey-green cloth with spine lettered in gilt. 88 pages. First English edition, first impression. Lacking the dust jacket. Very light wear to spine ends, some toning to pastedowns and endpapers. Preliminary pages are very lightly foxed. Overall a near fine copy. Very scarce. A foundational document of psychoanalysis originally written by Freud in 1923. In 1924 Virginia and Leonard Woolf of the Hogarth Press became the publisher of the International Psycho-Analytical Library, which is how this came to be the first English edition. Bound in publisher's original grey-green cloth with spine lettered in gilt.

In this foundational text, Freud introduces the structural model of the psyche consisting of the id, ego, and super-ego.