Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis

Karl Abraham can be considered one of Sigmund Freud's most creative and devoted disciples, and has been one of the most important voices in the development of psychoanalysis. Despite dying young, his key works provide an invaluable contribution to psychoanalysis as one of its most influential founding fathers.In 1907, he had his first contact with Freud, with whom he developed a lifetime relationship. Returning to Germany, he founded the Berliner Society of Psychoanalysis in 1910. He was the president of the International Psychoanalytical Association from 1914 to 1918 and again in 1925. Abraham collaborated with Freud on the understanding of manic-depressive illness, leading to Freud's paper on 'Mourning and Melancholia' in 1917. He was the analyst of Melanie Klein during 1924-1925, and of a number of other British psychoanalysts, including Edward Glover, James Glover, and Alix Strachey. He was a mentor for an influential group of German analysts, including Karen Horney, Helene Deutsch, and Franz Alexander. His key works cover the areas of the development of child sexuality and its relation to mental disorders, the development of the libido, cultural issues including work on various myths suggesting their relation to dreams (1909), as well as writing an interpretation of the spiritual activities of the Egyptian monotheistic Pharaoh Amenhotep IV (1912).Described by Freud himself as his "best pupil", his work is increasingly recognised for its importance in the development of psychoanalysis.

"His rich clinical experience, both in psychopathology and in clinical psychiatry, combined with his keen powers of observation and his cool critical judgment, give to his contributions a quite special value in a field where such qualities are of the highest importance.The fundamental significance of his clinical observations and the clarity and precision with which he recorded them, give them a rank of permanent scientific worth"- Ernest Jones

• Translators’ Note , Introductory Memoir 1 , The Experiencing of Sexual Traumas as a Form of Sexual Activity (1907) 1 , The Psycho - Sexual Differences Between Hysteria and Dementia Precox 1 (1908) , The Psychological Relations Between Sexuality and Alcoholism (1908) 1 , Hysterical Dream-States 1 (1910) , Remarks on the Psycho-Analysis of a Case of Foot and Corset Fetishism 1 (1910) , Notes on the Psycho-Analytical Investigation and Treatment of Manic - Depressive Insanity and Allied Conditions 1 (1911) , A Complicated Ceremonial Found in Neurotic Women 1 (1912) , Mental After-Effects Produced in a Nine-Year-Old Child by the Observation of Sexual Intercourse Between its Parents 1 (1913) , Restrictions and Transformations of Scopophilia in Psycho-Neurotics; with Remarks on Analogous Phenomena in Folk-Psychology 1 (1913) , A Constitutional Basis of Locomotor Anxiety 1 (1913) , The Ear and Auditory Passage as Erotogenic Zones 1 (1913) , The First Pregenital Stage of the Libido 1 (1916) , Ejaculatio Præcox 1 (1917) , The Spending of Money in Anxiety States 1 (1917) , A Particular form of Neurotic Resistance Against the Psycho-Analytic Method 1 (1919) , The Applicability of Psycho-Analytic Treatment to Patients at an Advanced Age 1 (1919) , The Narcissistic Evaluation of Excretory Processes in Dreams and Neurosis 1 (1920) , Contribution to a Discussion on Tic 1 (1921) , The Spider as a Dream Symbol 1 (1922) , An Infantile Theory of the Origin of The Female Sex 1 (1923) , An Infantile Sexual Theory Not Hitherto Noted 1 (1925) , Manifestations of the Female Castration Complex 1 (1920) , Contributions to the Theory of The Anal Character 1 (1921) , The Influence of Oral Erotism on Character-Formation 1 (1924) , Character-Formation on The Genital Level of Libido-Development 1 (1925) , A Short Study of the Development of the Libido, Viewed in The Light of Mental Disorders (1924) 1