1. Introduction “Freud Obras Completas” refers to the Spanish-language editions of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), the founder of psychoanalysis. These compilations are essential for Spanish-speaking psychologists, psychiatrists, humanities scholars, and students. Freud’s writings, spanning from the 1890s to the 1930s, cover foundational concepts such as the unconscious, dream interpretation, the Oedipus complex, repression, transference, and the structural model of the psyche (id, ego, superego).
Unlike a single standardized edition, multiple Spanish translations exist, each with different editorial criteria, scholarly apparatuses, and translation philosophies. Freud’s first translations into Spanish appeared in the 1920s, often via Argentine and Spanish publishers (e.g., Biblioteca Nueva in Madrid). Early translations were indirect (from French or German) and sometimes incomplete or technically inconsistent. Over time, the need for a direct, complete, and reliable Spanish edition became evident. freud obras completas
| Volumes | Period | Key Works Included | |---------|--------|--------------------| | 1–3 | 1886–1899 | Studies on Hysteria (with Breuer), early neurological papers, Project for a Scientific Psychology. | | 4–5 | 1900–1905 | The Interpretation of Dreams, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious, Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality. | | 6–10 | 1906–1912 | Delusion and Dream in Jensen’s Gradiva, Leonardo da Vinci, Totem and Taboo, Papers on Technique. | | 11–15 | 1913–1918 | The Uncanny, On Narcissism, Metapsychological Papers, Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis. | | 16–20 | 1919–1925 | Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, The Ego and the Id, Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety. | | 21–24 | 1926–1938 | The Question of Lay Analysis, Civilization and Its Discontents, Moses and Monotheism, Outline of Psychoanalysis. | Freud’s writings, spanning from the 1890s to the