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The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. The Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis in London announce the forthcoming publication of Freud's work in twenty-four volumes, translated into English under the General Editorship of James Strachey, advised and assisted by Anna Freud.

The centenary of Freud's birth falls on 6 May, 1956, and the event is being marked by the issue of a new edition of his works in English in twenty-four volumes: twenty-three volumes of text together with an index volume. The edition will be Demy 8vo in size, bound in buckram, and blocked in real gold.

The new Standard Edition will comprise the whole of Freud's published psychological writings—that is, both the psycho-analytic and the pre-psycho-analytic. It will not include his early biological and neurological1 writings, which might appropriately form a supplementary series of volumes. Nor will it include his correspondence, the publication of which must necessarily be postponed. An exception has, however, been made in the case of his letters to Wilhelm Fliess. These throw so much light on the early development of Freud's psychological views that their omission would seriously impair the completeness of the edition as a whole. Accordingly the more purely scientific portions of those letters, including all the detached draft-papers and, in particular, the 'Project for a Scientific Psychology', will find a place in the first volume of the Standard Edition. The same considerations have led to the inclusion in the second volume of the sections of the Studies on Hysteria written by Josef Breuer, which were omitted from both the German collected editions. The Standard Edition will include an appreciable quantity of material that has not previously appeared in English.

The question at once arises of whether the works should be arranged according to subject or to chronology. The first collected German edition adopted the former plan and the secon