Esther Freud Esther Freud Esther Freud (born 2 May 1963) is a British novelist. Born in London, Freud is the daughter of painter Lucian Freud and Bernardine Coverley. She is also a great-granddaughter of Sigmund Freud and niece of Clement Freud. She travelled extensively with her mother as a child, and returned to London at the age of 16 to train as an actress at The Drama Centre. She has worked in television and theatre as both actress and writer. Her first credited television appearance, though inauspicious, was as a terrified diner in "The Bill" in 1984, running frantically out of a
The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud is a complete edition of the works of Sigmund Freud. It was translated from the German under the general editorship of James Strachey, in collaboration with Anna Freud, assisted by Alix Strachey and Alan Tyson. The "Standard Edition" (usually abbreviated as SE) consists of 24 volumes, and it was originally published by the Hogarth Press in London in 1953–1974. Unlike the German "Gesammelte Werke", the "SE" contains critical footnotes by the editors. This editorial material has later been