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 Freuds 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 Solmss revisions and additions, from the historical translation and commentaries of James Stracheys Standard Edition. Readers can examine what Strachey contributed before the revisions in tandem with Solmss updates, new translations, annotations, and commentaries, collectively bringing Freuds text and Stracheys 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 Stracheys 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 Freuds 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.

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 Freuds majestic Standard Edition. Besides silent corrections of minor lexical and syntactical slip-ups, Solms version rectifies omissions, corrects prior mis-readings, provides richer context to many of Freuds papers, clarifies hazy collaborations, and recovers from the gluttonous dustbin of history certain significant deleted portions of Freuds text. Solms proposals frequently emanate from his retrieval and review of Freuds 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 and supervising analyst, Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia

Many years of meticulous scholarship, careful consultation with others, daunting decision-making, and passionate attention to Freuds thought and prose have come to fruition in Mark Solms revision of James Stracheys 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; author

Over the past 30 years Professor Mark Solms has undertaken the mammoth task of revising Freuds oeuvre with impressive scholarship. This much-awaited Revised Standard Edition of Freuds 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, British Psychoanalytical Society

The task of a Revised 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, professor, Committee on Social Thought, The University of Chicago

The titanic effort by Mark Solms to publish the Revised Standard Edition of Freuds 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 Freuds work as a neuroscientist and as the discoverer of psychoanalysis. Solmss attempt to correct (as far as possible) the mistakes and misinterpretations in Stracheys 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, Distinguished Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society, London

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 Freuds thinking.

--Harriet L. Wolfe, president, International Psychoanalytical Association; clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, University of California San Francisco