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The pagination converter grew out of the work of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Indexing Research Group.2 The converter is an instrument designed for quick page-by-page comparisons between the two major collections of Freud's writings, the Gescmmelte Werke and the Standard Edition. It was prepared as a necessary intermediate step in a comparative study of indexes to Freud's writings.3 Of immediate and practical importance through use of the pagination converter, the Gesamtregister (the Index, Volume 18) of the Gesammelte Werke can now serve as a cumulative index to the Standard Edition. Similarly, the projected index volume of the Standard Edition will serve as an auxiliary index to the German edition.
In addition, we expect the converter to facilitate research in psychoanalytic indexing and translations. Frequently, it is of great interest to be able to quickly compare the words, phrases and metaphorical images of the English version with the German originals in their initial contexts. Less obviously, the inevitable choices inherent in translating may either distort and falsify or, as in the case in Strachey's masterful translation, may impose a new unity and clarity of exposition which makes manifest conceptual relationships that were previously latent. Herein lies a rich field for future study to which we hope we have made a contribution.
We hope the converter will be useful to students of Freud's thought, and especially to those scholars engaged in tracing the historical development of psychoanalytic concepts through successive terminological and translation vicissitudes.
Since there is no simple mathematical relationship between the paginations of the compared editions, the converter had to be constructed from direct page-by-page inspections. It is accurate to within half a page.
The table converting the pages in the Gesammelte Werke to the comparable pages of the Standard Edition is complete. The opposite conversion table from the English