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>ctrl-f "Strachy"
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It's worth noting that if you want to read Freud, the English translation is famously bad. Strachy translated both "Instinkt" and "Trieb" as "instinct" which misses much of Freud's point regarding death drive, which might be the most important discovery he made. Animals have instincts while language makes possible Trieb/drives.

Certainly read some Freud but don't take the English translation of Freud as the whole of your understanding of psychoanalysis. Either checking out the German, or reading some secondary sources (picrel is my favorite) is ideal. Coincidentally, if you want a life's work that'll see you revered in academia, work on a new translation of Freud.