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The publication of Volume XII is the completion of the new Swedish translation of the Collected Works of Sigmund Freud. It is an impressive achievement by the former Swedish Psychoanalytical Society [Svenska Psykoanalytiske Föreningen] and the former Swedish Association for Holistic
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy [Svenska Föreningen för Holistisk Psykoanalys och Psykoterapi], who united in 2010 to form the Swedish Psychoanalytical Association.
An editing committee consisting of members from both groups has been working for 16 years on the publication of the 12 volumes. The aim of this new translation of Freud has been to create a translation closer to Freud's own German language. The existing translations of Freud into Swedish have all have all had their origins in Strachey's English translation. The criticism of this translation has been that the essence of Freud's rich formulations has been watered down, and that a more scientific technical language has been created which does not correspond to Freud's original.
Paikin (1998) reviewed the first four volumes in this Journal, and found the ambitious project a successful one so far. The Swedish language was close to the original German, and the learned introductions and commenting notes put the texts into perspective for new readers and experts on Freud alike. In addition, Paikin commented on something that rarely warrants comment in a review of scientific publications: namely that the layout, design, paper quality and binding of these publications were superb. These comments are just as relevant for the final volume XII, which contains introductory papers (55 pages), a collocation of quotations (87 pages), the whole register for Volumes I-XI (180 pages) and bibliographies (190 pages).
The introduction to Volume XII is written by Hans Reiland, who shares the editors' thinking of including in the final volume, as well as the register, details of Swedish connections and relations to Freud and to psychoanalysis - in o