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1908 when it was agreed between Professor Freud and myself that I should be his translator,  it was decided to render into English first the  following five works: Selected Papers on Hysteria and Psychoneuroses Three Contributions  to the Theory of Sex, The Interpretation  of Dreams Psychopathology of Everyday  Life and the present volume. These works were selected because they represent the various  stages of development of Professor Freud's Psychoanalysis, and also because it was thought that  they contain the material which one must master  before one is able to judge correctly the author's  theories or apply them in practice. This undertaking, which was fraught with many linguistic and other difficulties, has finally been