Alix Strachey

Alix Strachey (née Sargant-Florence; 4 June 1892 – 28 April 1973) was an American-born British psychoanalyst and, with her husband, the translator into English of The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud.

Life Strachey was born in Nutley, New Jersey, United States on 4 June 1892. She was the daughter of Henry Smyth Florence, an American musician, and Mary Sargant Florence, a British painter. Her brother, Philip Sargant Florence, became an economist and married the birth control activist Lella Faye Secor.

Freud asked the couple to translate some of his works into English, and this was to become their lives' work. Both became psychoanalysts themselves, and as well as Freud's works also translated works by a number of other European psychoanalysts including Karl Abraham, Melanie Klein and Otto Fenichel.

Selected works A New German-English Psychoanalytical Vocabulary, Published for the Institute of Psycho-analysis by Ballière. Tindall and Cox, 1943, 84 p. . The Unconscious Motives of War, New York, Universities Press, 1956 / Allen & Urwin, 1957, 283 p. . The Psychology of Nationhood (1960)

Translations Selected Papers of Karl Abraham [on Psycho-analysis] Sigmund Freud, Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety, 1936. Melanie Klein, The Psycho-Analysis of Children, Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, rééd.1975, (Collaboration) The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud