Teaching Freud’s Metapsychology And Technique Papers

Psychoanalysts teaching Freud in a psychoanalytic training program assigned two chapters from the newly revised Standard Edition of Freud’s Complete Works. They focused on the changes Solmes made from Strachey’s translation in the Standard Edition. In addition, they assigned a paper by Mark Solms that proposes revising drive theory. These changes mitigated the challenge they had previously experienced when teaching Freud’s theoretical metapsychology and technique papers. Solms’ IPA podcast, in which he explains his revised translation, further enlivened the instructors’ interest and helped them engage the class.