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On the occasion of Sigmund Freud's 150 years birthday in 2006, Hans Reitzels Forlag, a publisher we know from their extensive number of translations of Freud's works into Danish, has published a collection of essays related to different short texts by Sigmund Freud. The book aims both to pay homage to Freud and to demonstrate that his ideas are still alive today.
The book presents twenty-three extracts from Freud's works, each followed by an essay related to the chosen text. Within this large amount of material and numerous authors, there is not surprisingly great variety both in the topics discussed and in the authors' background and approaches to Freud. What largely integrates the essays seems to be a common respect for Freud's work and an interest in discussing his ideas.
This diversity in background and approach also concerns the three editors, who here participate as authors as well. Ole Andkjær Olsen, known as a scholar of Freudian theory from his many earlier publications, among them the extensive Psychodynamic Dictionary (Olsen, 2002), has, in this book, written an essay on the Oedipus complex, a topic he has also addressed in his doctoral dissertation. Christian Braad Thomsen is a film director and author with a great production of documentary films and books, some of which are about psychoanalysis. Here, he presents a critical essay on religion as a comment to Freud's lecture “The Question of a Weltanschaung” (Freud, 1933). Bente Petersen, the third editor, is a member of the Society for Dynamic Psychoanalysis (Selskabet for Dynamisk Psykoanalyse), a non-IPA Institute of Psychoanalysis, and works as a clinical psychologist. She presents an essay about anxiety and development. The three editors have in common their membership in the The Danish Sigmund Freud Society (Det Danske Sigmund Freud Selskab), which organisation is also presented in the last page of the book.
Among the other 19 authors, more than half have a clinical background. Six are members in the D