How does Mark Solms's Revised Standard Edition differ from James Strachey's Standard Edition and how is it similar? The objective of this paper is to explore not only the answers to these questions, but why they are important. Going beyond such questions in an effort to uncover the primary ethical, cultural, and methodological considerations pertaining to the Revised Standard Edition as well as their interconnection, this paper delves into the very meaning of translation and how it relates to psychoanalysis itself. Notions of the ‘untranslatable' and the ‘unknowable’ are discussed as well along with interdisciplinary implications stemming from philosophy, semiotics, and more.