The Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud

The long-awaited Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (RSE) is founded on the canonical Standard Edition (SE) translation from the German by James Strachey, while adding a new layer of revisions and translations. Conceptual and lexicographic ambiguities are clarified in extensive new annotations. Drawing on established conventions and intellectual traditions, the Revised Standard Edition supplements Freud’s writing with substantial editorial commentaries addressing controversial technical terms and translation issues through the lens of modern scholarship—a living text in dialogue with itself and the reader. The RSE also includes 56 essays and letters which were not included in the SE.

In the RSE text and footnotes a subtle underlining distinguishes, in an easy and accessible way, Mark Solms’s revisions and additions, from the historical translation and commentaries of James Strachey’s Standard Edition. Readers can examine what Strachey contributed before the revisions in tandem with Solms’s updates, new translations, annotations, and commentaries, collectively bringing Freud’s text and Strachey’s translation into dialogue with five decades of research, including the most recent developments in the field.

Commissioned by the British Psychoanalytical Society and co-published by Rowman & Littlefield, the Revised Standard Edition brings together decades of scholarly deliberation concerning the translation of Freudian technical terms while retaining the best of Strachey’s original English translation.This landmark work will captivate a wide audience, from interested lay readers to practicing clinicians to scientists and scholars in fields related to psychoanalysis.

Special Features:

• New Freud material, including 56 notes, essays, and letters that were not included in the Standard Edition. They reveal new insights into Freud’s views on such topics ashomosexuality and religion

• New content underlined to identify changes to the Standard Edition, including corrections of mistakes in the original translation as well as new, clearer translations of many passages

• New annotations in the margins providing the original German technical terms

• New and updated editorial material and translation notes

• New glossary concerning the translation of all key terms

• New photographic illustrations

• New and massively expanded Freud bibliography

• Entirely revised 24th volume, a major scholarly work, including a comprehensive index for the whole set

• Cross-referencing to the earlier SE is facilitated by the addition of page numbers in square brackets in the margins

Mark Solms is a globally acclaimed psychoanalyst and neuropsychologist, known for the integration of contemporary neuroscience with psychoanalytic methods and theories, and for his discovery of the forebrain mechanisms of dreaming. He is the Director of Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital, the Science Director of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and the Co-Chair of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society.

The British Psychoanalytical Society, founded in 1913, is a charity dedicated to enhancing lives through the provision of psychoanalytic treatment and the dissemination of psychoanalytic ideas and understanding. Past members include some of the most important figures in the history of psychoanalysis, among them Wilfred Bion, John Bowlby, Anna Freud, Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott. The Institute for Psychoanalysis (IOPA) is the outward face of the Society, providing rigorous trainings in child and adult psychoanalysis. The IOPA offers conferences and courses worldwide for mental health professionals as well as holding an extensive archive and overseeing the publication of scholarly works in the field.