By Freud, Sigmund

New York, Boni & Liveright, Inc., 1922, First US Edition – printed in Vienna. sm4to – 23.2 cm, pp. (10), 90, Index, (1) publisher’s advertisements. Publisher’s dark freen-grey cloth with original unclipped dust jacket. Boards are in Fine condition, dust jacket is delicate, chipping at extremities, missing spine but unclipped and with complete inner flaps, front and back covers. Gilt lettering on spine. Interior is clean and crisp with normal page toning, no prior ownership markings, no foxing, folds or tears, hinges are strong and un-cracked — an extraordinarily well-preserved copy of an important publication — in Near Fine condition.

From the dust jacket cover:
“In this book Dr. Freud investigates an entirely new realm of human consciousness. Leaving for the time his work on the sexual bases of our impulses and emotions, he strikes out into what he describes as “Beyond the Pleasure Principle,” the factors in man’s consciousness outside of his libido.
Particularly, he deals in a daring way with the awareness of death, which history has shown can even be made the key to entire civilizations. In developing his subject, Dr. Freud reaches some original and startling conclusions.
It is the work of a great, original and unflagging mind on the most advanced problem of psychology. It is a spur to psychologists, a new revelation to artists who have availed themselves of the secrets of consciousness, disclosed in the previous works of Dr. Freud, and a stimulus to all readers”.

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