Complete Writings of Sigmund Freud. Critical Edition. Part 1

To this day, there exists no complete edition of the published works of Sigmund Freud, neither in the original German, nor in any other language, let alone a historically critical edition that includes all other texts from his hand, such as his manuscripts and letters. The present project is committed to this long-term
goal.
The basis for the edition of the scientific oeuvre will be both first editions and all following editions, with all their variants, preliminary notes and drafts up to the definitive edition that appeared still during Freud’s lifetime. All preceding changes, deletions and additions will be denoted and recorded. All writings will be presented in diplomatic transcriptions according to strict editorial guidelines. The Complete Edition will, for the first time, make a systematic linkage possible and a comparison of these two “parallel oeuvres,” that is, between the complete body of Freud’s (extant) letters and his scientific, printed work – and thus create a new level of reading and understanding Freud.
Based on extensive preparatory work and archival research and in cooperation with experienced researchers and in scientific partnership with the Austrian Center for Digital Humanities of the Austrian Academy of Science, the results of the project proposed here will underwrite a decisive stage in completing this longterm undertaking:
For the first time the complete works of Sigmund Freud, including his handwritten manuscripts and a major portion of his correspondence, will be available in a uniform digital platform as a facsimile edition. A newly systematized bibliography of all works, manuscripts, published and unpublished correspondence and works will be generated.
In cooperation with the Austrian Academy of Science a digital apparatus according to the needs of a historically critical edition will be developed.
Based on these tools a considerable number of works and letters will be edited. The scientific and editorial production, including various first editions, will be continuously made available to the public, available in a uniform digital platform under a creative-commons license (CC-BY).
The present situation – nearly 80 years after Freud’s death – presents an opportunity that must be exploited soon: On the one hand, the copyright for his writings expired in 2010, and on the other, a generation of researchers is still active and able to make their expertise available, to pass on their knowledge to the next generation of scholars, and to participate in the completion of the present project.
Edition: Prof. Dr. Michael Rohwasser, Prof. Dr. Christfried Tögel, Dr. Michael Schröter, Dr. Ernst Falzeder, Mag. Arkadi Blatow, Mag. Christian Huber, Dr. Christine Diercks
Digital Humanities: Dr. Karlheinz Mörth, Mag. Daniel Schopper, Mag. Dr. Peter Andorfer, DI Matej Durco, Julian Roedelius