This bilingual edition offers all three versions—draft, final copy, and published version—of Das Ich und das Es. We wish to draw attention to a particularity of this Freudian manuscript: that it is an "almost" direct transcription of his formulations in an nascent stage, before the time had come to make them understood within the context of his work. Thus, the draft bears the mark of thoughts driven by the reality of psychoanalysis, presented in a concise, sharp, stark, and apodictic manner.







