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
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
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 as
homosexuality and religion
• New content
underlined to identify changes to the
, 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
is facilitated by the addition of page numbers in square brackets in the margins