Freud approved the overall editorial plan, specific renderings of key words and phrases, and the addition of valuable notes, from bibliographical and explanatory.
Newly designed in a uniform format, each new paperback in the Standard Edition opens with a biographical essay on Freud\'s life and work along with a note on the individual volume by Peter Gay, Sterling Professor of History at Yale..
The result was to place the Standard Edition in a position of unquestioned supremacy over all other existing versions.
Many of the translations were done by Strachey himself; the rest were prepared under his supervision.
Freud approved the overall editorial plan, specific renderings of key words and phrases, and the addition of valuable notes, from bibliographical and explanatory