It is not as if psychoanalysts have ever stopped reading Freud. Indeed, when compared with the social habits of practitioners of the natural sciences, and even those of the human sciences such as anthropology, psychoanalysts have always behaved in a peculiar manner towards that shelf of books cryptically known in English as the Standard Edition. One might more profitably criticise psychoanalysts for their slavish scanning of the Master's texts than accuse them of an attenuated repression of them. But, of course, or perhaps, this misses the point of Lacan's advocacy of a return to Freud, which is articulated upon the thesis that psychoanalysts have systematically misread his works. Firstly, they start chronologically at the wrong end: they read the Ego and the Id (1923) (SE xix: 12–66) before The Interpretation of Dreams (1900) (SE iv, v), Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety (1926) (SE xx: 87–174) before Studies on Hysteria (1895)(SE ii). And, with much vitriolic insinuation, Lacan accuses his fellow analysts of neglecting the other two "royal roads' to the unconscious, signposted by The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (1901) (SE vi) and jokes in Their Relation to the Unconscious (1905) (SE viii).