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The author discusses some difficulties that arise in the new French translation of Freud's Complete Works. She is quite critical of the translation and amasses a long list of cogent, but technical, linguistic, and stylistic difficulties. No one would argue about the need for a complete translation into French, and it is quite clear that the existing French translations are full of imprecisions. However, even before the new edition is complete, she finds it troublesome that there are not only errors of translation but also a conceptualization of the project which runs the risk of allowing the general reading public to classify Freud among the more obscure of authors, and then to attribute the obscurantism to psychoanalysis itself. In general, the author finds Strachey much more sensitive to the nuances of the German text than the French translation. She comments on what a critic of translations of Shakespeare called “unconscious murder.” If Freud's writings, expressed so clearly in German, become obscure and even precious in this new translation, and the French reader is struck by linguistic formulations that are difficult and crude, then this amounts to an attack not only on Freud's work but on the very foundations of his therapeutic practice.