Historical-critical Sigmund Freud Edition meets Revised Standard Edition: Common grounds, differences and interchange between Vienna and London.

Abstract

After 30 years of collective effort and intensive discussion, Mark Solms and the Institute of Psychoanalysis in London have finally succeeded in completing all 24 volumes of the Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (RSE). Within the framework of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, we have been working for 12 years on the primarily digital historical-critical (historisch-kritische) Sigmund Freud Edition (FE). The FE strives for completeness. A look back in history also shows how closely the German and English editions are linked with each other and how deeply Freud himself was involved right up to the end of his life, and thus also authorised these editions. RSE and FE mark the current status of a development that is still ongoing. They have different approaches, tasks and foci; however, with regard to text-critical criteria, in many ways, they can support each other.