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James Beaumont Strachey (; 26 September 1887, London25 April 1967, High Wycombe) was a British psychoanalyst, and, with his wife Alix, a translator of Sigmund Freud into English. He is perhaps best known as the general editor of the "''Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud'' ... the international authority".〔Peter Gay, ''Freud: A Life for our Time'' (London 1989), p. 741.〕 ==Early life== He was a son of Lt-Gen Sir Richard Strachey and Lady (Jane) Strachey, called the ''enfant miracle'' as his father was 70 and his mother 47. Some of his nieces and nephews, who were considerably older than James, called him ''Jembeau'' or ''Uncle Baby''. His parents had thirteen children, of whom ten lived to adulthood. He was educated at Hillbrow preparatory school in Rugby and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took over the rooms used by his older brother Lytton Strachey, and was known as "the Little Strachey"; Lytton was now "the Great Strachey". At Cambridge, Strachey fell deeply in love with the poet Rupert Brooke, who did not return his affections. He was himself pursued by mountaineer George Mallory—conceding to his sexual advances—by Harry Norton, and by economist John Maynard Keynes, with whom he also had an affair. His love of Brooke was a constant, however, until the latter's death in 1915, which left Strachey "shattered". On the imposition of military conscription in 1916, during World War I, James became a conscientious objector. James was assistant editor of ''The Spectator'', and a member of the Bloomsbury Group or "Bloomsberries" when he became familiar with Alix Sargant Florence, though they first met in 1910. They moved in together in 1919 and married in 1920. Soon afterwards they moved to Vienna, where James began a psychoanalysis with Freud, of whom he was a great admirer. He would claim to Lytton that his analysis "provided 'a complete undercurrent for life'".〔Lisa Appignanesi and John Forrester, ''Freud's Women'' (London 1993), p. 367〕 Freud asked the couple to translate some of his works into English, and this became their lives' work: they became “my excellent English translators, Mr and Mrs James Strachey”.〔Freud, quoted in Appignanesi, p. 368.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James Strachey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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