Psychoanalysis and History· 2015
Beyond the Pleasure Principle
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Short summary
The Standard Edition of Freud's Complete Psychological Works, authorized by Freud and edited by James Strachey, is presented as the definitive English translation, superior to all others.
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Key points
- The Standard Edition is the only English translation of Freud's works authorized by Freud.
- James Strachey oversaw the translation, with Freud approving editorial plans and specific word choices.
- The edition includes valuable bibliographical and explanatory notes.
- Newly designed paperback versions feature biographical essays by Peter Gay.
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Abstract
In reasoned progression he outlined core psychoanalytic concepts, such as repression, free association and libido. Of the various English translations of Freud's major works to appear in his lifetime, only one was authorized by Freud himself: The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud under the general editorship of James Strachey. Freud approved the overall editorial plan, specific renderings of key words and phrases, and the addition of valuable notes, from bibliographical and explanatory. Many of the translations were done by Strachey himself; the rest were prepared under his supervision. The result was to place the Standard Edition in a position of unquestioned supremacy over all other existing versions.Newly designed in a uniform format, each new paperback in the Standard Edition opens with a biographical essay on Freud's life and work -along with a note on the individual volume-by Peter Gay, Sterling Professor of History at Yale.
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