The South African Psychoanalytical Association invites you to a celebration launch of the Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud 2024; revised, supplemented and edited by Mark Solms.

Mark Solms will be in conversation with Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela and Wahbie Long.

Saturday 24th August, 2024

17:00 for 17:30 (SAST; GMT+2)

In person at the Homecoming Centre, Corner Buitenkant St & Calendon St, District Six, Cape Town. Limited to 120 people. Drink and snacks included.

Online, via Zoom. A link to the recording of the event will be available, post the event, for all ticket holders.

For ease of reference, the ticket price of R300 is roughly equivalent to US$16/ EUR15

Organiser: SAPA in partnership with Jonathan Ball Publishers, Rowman & Littlefield and Institute of Psychoanalysis

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“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

“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