Psychoanalytic Review, 111(4), 385–412, 2024 © 2024 N.P.A.P. https://doi.org/10.1521/prev.2024.111.4.385 IN FOCUS: REVISIONING CONVERSATION WITH MARK SOLMS Mark Solms With Fred Busch, Eran Rolnik, Otto Kernberg, Susan Kassouf, Gary Ahlskog, Carl Jacobs, Kerstin Pahl, and Aleksandra Wagner Occasioned by the publication of The Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, the text repre- sents exchanges held in the summer of 2024 at the invitation of The Psychoanalytic Review. It addresses the genesis and the his- tory 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: revision, translation, drive, instinct, mourning, narcissism, transference, psychoanalysis, neuroscience, Anthropocene, Standard Edition, Revised Standard Edition, Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Mark Solms In the early spring of 2024, the psychoanalytic and other public engaged with the legacy of Sigmund Freud received the message that the much-awaited Revised Standard Edition of his complete psy- chological works would be inaugurated soon. For those in New York, the first encounter with the 24 volumes was made possible by the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute on June 11. It was at this event that The Psychoanalytic Review invited the Editor, Professor Mark Solms, for a conversation about the project that took more than three decades to complete. The following transcript (edited for clarity) is the result of two seminars closed to the public, held in August and September, a record of exchange between psychoanalysts of different genera- tions. The world map charted by their respective locations is far from comprehensive, let alone complete. It nevertheless signals