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.
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Mark Solms is an acclaimed psychoanalyst and neuroscientist, known for the integration of contemporary neuroscience
with psychoanalytic methods and theories, and for his discovery of the forebrain mechanisms of dreaming. He is Director of Neuropsychology
at the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital, Science Director of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and Co-Chair
of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society.
The British Psychoanalytical Society (Incorporating the Institute of Psychoanalysis), 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 of 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.
Mark Solms is an acclaimed psychoanalyst and neuroscientist, known for the integration of contemporary neuroscience
with psychoanalytic methods and theories, and for his discovery of the forebrain mechanisms of dreaming. He is Director of Neuropsychology
at the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital, Science Director of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and Co-Chair
of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society.
The British Psychoanalytical Society (Incorporating the Institute of Psychoanalysis), 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 of 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.
“Freud … was to the 20th century what Isaac Newton was to the 17th, and Charles Darwin was to the 19th. Most of us won't dedicate our lives to him, as Solms has done. Nevertheless, his colossal Revised Standard Edition is a material reflection of the outsize importance the strange Viennese doctor still has in our everyday lives.”
—The Times
“What this edition ... establishes, at a time when questions of sexuality and war have never been more fraught, is just how much Freud still has to say to us today.”
—The Guardian (US Edition)
Watch an interview with Mark Solms on the impact of Freud on Surrealism in
The Collector.
“The RSE is a work of immense historical, theoretical, clinical, and cultural value to scholars, practitioners, students, and the general public. Solms has meticulously reviewed SE language for errors, set in context complex meanings of technical terms, and provided end notes that expand and update the understanding of original texts. This monumental editorial revision brilliantly illuminates the roots and meanings of Freud’s thinking.”
—HARRIET L. WOLFE, MD, CLINICAL PROFESSOR OF PSYCHIATRY AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO; PRESIDENT, INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOANALYTICAL ASSOCIATION
“The Herculean effort by Mark Solms to publish the Revised Standard Edition of Freud’s writings is one of the most important scholarly works in the last 30 years, and not only in the field of psychoanalysis. The new papers by Freud that Solms has added (both translated and edited by him) make it possible to understand much better than before the continuity between Freud’s work as a neuroscientist and as the discoverer of psychoanalysis. Solms’s attempt to correct (as far as possible) the mistakes and misinterpretations in Strachey’s translations, together with the flexibility provided by his new glossary of technical terms, makes the RSE the new tool for understanding Freud in the 21st century.”
—RICCARDO STEINER, PhD, DISTINGUISHED FELLOW OF THE BRITISH PSYCHOANALYTICAL SOCIETY, LONDON
“The task of a Revised Standard Edition is reanimation and creative repetition—the values that psychoanalysis itself promotes. How to stay true to Freud, to Strachey, and at the same time open our eyes to the human condition? The editorial decisions here are bold, courageous, thoughtful, and well-explained. This is remembering in the deepest sense.”
—JONATHAN LEAR, PhD, PROFESSOR, COMMITTEE ON SOCIAL THOUGHT, THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
“Extending and, on many fronts, exceeding the earlier work of Freud translators (e.g., James & Alix Strachey and Alan Tyson, Joan Riviere), Freud biographers (e.g., Ernest Jones, Peter Gay) and Freud scholars (e.g., Kurt Eissler, Harold Blum, and Norman Kiell), Mark Solms has produced a revised version of Freud’s majestic Standard Edition. Besides ‘silent corrections’ of minor lexical and syntactical slip-ups, Solms’s version rectifies omissions, corrects prior misreadings, provides richer context to many of Freud’s papers, clarifies hazy collaborations, and recovers from the gluttonous dustbin of history certain significant deleted portions of Freud’s text. Solms’s proposals frequently emanate from his retrieval and review of Freud’s original, often hand-written, manuscripts in German. The effort has the stamp of meticulous scholarship and unfailing, tender devotion to truth. The work Solms offers us is a truly remarkable addition to our professional literature and is bound to become memorable!”
—SALMAN AKHTAR, MD, PROFESSOR OF PSYCHIATRY, JEFFERSON MEDICAL COLLEGE, TRAINING & SUPERVISING ANALYST, PSYCHOANALYTIC CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA
“Over the past 30 years Professor Mark Solms has undertaken the mammoth task of revising Freud’s oeuvre with impressive scholarship. This much-awaited Revised Standard Edition of Freud’s complete works will be an indispensable tool for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, neurologists, and philosophers, as well as those working in the humanities, and anyone who wishes to immerse themselves in the writings of this revolutionary thinker and founder of psychoanalysis.”
—ROSINE JOZEF PERELBERG, DISTINGUISHED FELLOW AND PAST PRESIDENT OF THE BRITISH PSYCHOANALYTICAL SOCIETY
“Many years of meticulous scholarship, careful consultation with others, daunting decision-making, and passionate attention to Freud’s thought and prose have come to fruition in Mark Solms’s revision of James Strachey’s translation of the Standard Edition. The result: a fatter, fitter Freud—with expanded introductions, updated footnotes, and a bibliography four times the size of the old one—a Freud for generations to come.”
—SIRI HUSTVEDT, PhD, WEIL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE
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