It is a tribute to the genius of Freud that his Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality has now been published in the United States more than a half-century after the first expurgated version wreaked such antipathy for the author's name. In an editorial note, J. D. Sutherland, General Editor of the International Psychoanalytical Library, states that this edition 'contains the completely revised and fully annotated text of The Standard Edition with a few extra editorial footnotes'.

In addition to the text there is an extensive bibliography of technical works referred to in it and a general index of nontechnical authors and those technical ones to whom no reference is