The Uncanny (Penguin Classics)

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Summary: Caveat emptor!
Review: Penguin has started a new series of Freud translations, edited by a person who does not know any German. This is astonishingly irresponsible, and anyone teaching or reading or recommending these texts should boycott Penguin's Freud for doing so. Anyone who has ever worked on Freud knows how crucially important the German original is, and how often mistranslations have led to misunderstandings of Freud's argument. For all their flaws, the Strachey editions may still be preferable.