Letter to Wilhelm Fliess (Letter 64) & Draft N (Notes III) : 31st May 1897 : Sigmund Freud

Freud’s letters to Fliess enable us to see him get to grips with the Oedipus complex. In the summer and autumn of 1897 his self-analysis revealed the essential features of the Oedipus complex. The first hint of the Oedipus complex can be seen in Draft N – Notes (III) (31^st May 1897), enclosed with Letter of 31^st May 1897 – Letter 64 :

‘It seems as though this death wish is directed in sons against their fathers and in daughters against their mothers.’

P250 of The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess 1887-1904 Translated & edited by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Belknap Press (1985)
Draft N was enclosed with the letter of 31^st May 1897.

Published

As Letter 64 & Draft N, translated by James Strachey with his footnotes, p206-210 of The origins of psycho-analysis, Letters to Wilhelm Fliess, Drafts & Notes : 1887-1902 by Sigmund Freud, edited by Marie Bonaparte, Anna Freud, Ernst Kris, Authorised translation by Eric Mosbacher and James Strachey, Introduction by Ernst Kris, Basic Books (New York), 1954
Letter of 31^st May 1897, p249-250 of The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess 1887-1904 Translated & edited by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Belknap Press (1985)
Draft N, p250-252 of The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess 1887-1904 Translated & edited by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Belknap Press (1985)
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Draft N – Subtitles

[enclosed with letter] Impulses
Relation between Impulses and Fantasies
Transposition of Belief
Fiction and Fine Frenzy[1] Motives for Symptom Formation
Definition of “Holy”

Footnote [1]. The last two words are in English, taken from Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night Dream, Act 5, Scene 1:

The poet’s eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven,
And, as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.

Citation

-As a reference on 6^th March 1957, p1-2 of EC Collectives’ translation of Seminar IV The Relation from Object [La Relation d’objet] & Freudian Structures (1956-1957) : from 21^st November 1956 : Jacques Lacan.

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-This reference is quoted in full in the notes to The Perverse Couple : 1967 : Jean Clavreuil,

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