Occasioned by the publication of The Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, the text represents exchanges held in the summer of 2024 at the invitation of The Psychoanalytic Review. It addresses the genesis and the history of the project, and its impact on psychoanalytic rethinking, formation, and practice. While exploring the potential and the limits of revisioning, it also raises questions about the nature of transmission of psychoanalytic knowledge and about the field's relation to the state of its own standards in the age of Anthropocene.
Keywords: Anthropocene; James Strachey; Mark Solms; Revised Standard Edition; Sigmund Freud; Standard Edition; drive; instinct; mourning; narcissism; neuroscience; psychoanalysis; revision; transference; translation.