Further reading list
for Theories of the Mind: Jung
As with Freud, the indispensible beginning is to read Jung; but, unlike Freud, Jung is (in my opinion) considerably more interesting than his followers, who really don't match up to him at all. However, a bonus for Jung enthusiasts is that he left an autobiography, which is a marvellous and extraordinary work, that everyone ought to read. Memories, Dreams, and Reflections is therefore what you start with, without a doubt; this gives a good outline of how Jung thought about things, as well as an indication of the stages of development of his thought. After that, you can either follow up in the Works, many of which are now conveniently published in paperback, whichever aspect of his psychology you find interesting, or you can use the one-volume Fontana selected writings (now out of print, I think, unfortunately), and then go on to read individual books.
I have now (10/12/98) changed my mind about this. There is an excellent book by Anthony Stevens, Private Myths, Dreams and Dreaming (1995), available currently in Penguin. I recommend this book very strongly.
On the application of Jung to literary studies, the field is rather unpromising, frankly. In Man and his Symbols, which I think is an unsatisfactory book, though Jung's introduction and some of the pictures are nice, there are examples of Jungians doing Jungian analysis to literature. The most successful of the literary critics who followed Jung is Northrop Frye, who is formidably intelligent and whose use of Jung is creative and not slavish. So the Anatomy of Criticism is certainly worth looking at. Though it's very long ...
The most fruitful of the developments of Jung that I know of, and the most usable for literary criticism, is in the work of Joseph Campbell. His Hero with a Thousand Faces is a valuable and actually rather moving book, which gives a method of analysing myths and fairy tales that could well be applied to literature. Campbell became very fashionable, incidentally, since the TV series of interviews with him.
Finally, the best novel that I know that is susceptible of a Jungian analysis is The Golden Notebook, by Doris Lessing . This describes (in part) the process of being analysed by a Jungian, and the book is full of Jungian symbols. The latter is also true of her interesting but less successful Briefing for a Descent to Hell .
Paperbacks
The following have been published in cheap(-ish) paperback editions, so it's worth trying the bookshop to see if the are in stock/in print at the moment.
C.G.Jung,Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces. C.G.Jung (ed.), Man and his Symbols, Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook and Briefing for a Descent to Hell. Also about 24 books from Jung's Collected Works are published by Routledge Kegan Paul in cheap paperback form.
By Jung
Freud, Sigmund and Carl Gustav Jung, The Freud-Jung Letters, the Correspondence Between Sigmund Freud and C.G. Jung, Ed. William McGuire. (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974) Main Library 1 BF 175. Rather depressing: these two great men very very mean to each other towards the end.
Jung, C. G., Symbols of Transformation, an Analysis of the Prelude to a Case of Schizophrenia, Ed. Hubert Read. The Collected Works of C. G. Jung. (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 5: Main Library 1 s BF 175. This is the book that broke with Freud.
Jung, C. G., The Practice of Psychotherapy, Essays on the Psychology of the Transference and Other Subjects, Ed. Hubert Read. The Collected Works of C. G. Jung. (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1954) 16: Main Library 1 BF 175. Contains the valuable Analytical Psychology: its Theory and Practice: a short introduction to Jung's analytical practice.
Jung, C. G., Psychology and religion: West and East, Ed. Hubert Read. The Collected Works of C. G. Jung. (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1958) 11: Main Library 1 s BF 175. contains the brilliant lectures Psychology and Religion East and West. A very good introduction after Memories dreams .
Jung, C. G., Memories, Dreams, Reflections , Ed. A. Jaffe. (London: Collins and Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1963) Main Library 1 s BF 175
Jung, C. G., Aion, researches into the phenomenology of the self, Ed. Hubert Read. The Collected Works of C. G. Jung. (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1959) 9(2): Main Library 1 BF 175
Jung, C. G., The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche, Ed. Hubert Read. The Collected Works of C. G. Jung. (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1960) 8: Main Library 1 s BF 175
Jung, C. G., Freud and Psychoanalysis, Ed. Hubert Read. The Collected Works of C. G. Jung. (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1961) 4: Main Library 1 BF 175
Jung, C. G., Mysterium Coniunctionis, an Inquiry Into the Separation and Synthesis of Psychic Opposites in Alchemy, Ed. Hubert Read. The Collected Works of C. G. Jung. (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1963) 14: Main Library 1 BF 175
Jung, C. G., Alchemical Studies, Ed. Hubert Read. The Collected Works of C. G. Jung. (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967) 13: Main Library 1 BF 175
Jung, C. G., The archetypes and the collective unconscious, Ed. Hubert Read. The Collected Works of C. G. Jung. (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1968) 9(1): Main Library 1 BF 175
Jung, C. G., Psychological Types, Ed. Hubert Read. The Collected Works of C. G. Jung. (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1971) 6: Main Library 1 s BF 175
Jung, C. G., Letters (of) C.G. Jung, 1906-1950, Ed. Gerhard Adler. (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973) 1: Main Library 1 s BF 175. He burned all of the best ones.
Jung, C. G., Letters (of) C.G. Jung, 1951-196, Ed. Gerhard Adler in collaboration with Aniela Jaffe ;. (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1976) 21: Main Library 1 s BF 175
Jung, C. G., The Symbolic Life, Miscellaneous Writings, Ed. Hubert Read. The Collected Works of C. G. Jung. (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977) 18: Main Library 1 s BF 175
Jung, C. G., C. G. Jung Speaking, Interviews and Encounters, Ed. William McGuire and R.F.C. Hull. Picador. (London: Pan Books, 1980) Main Library 1 s BF 175. This is a nice book.
About Jung
Bennet, E. A., What Jung Really Said, What they really said series. (London: Macdonald & Co, 1966) Main Library 1 BF 175. OK; basic.
Brome, Vincent, Jung, (London (etc.): Macmillan, 1978) Main Library 1 s BF 175. A good biography.
Bryant, Christopher, Jung and the Christian way, (London, Darton: Longman and Todd, 1983, 1983) Main Library 1 s BF 175
Dry, Avis M., The Psychology of Jung, a Critical Interpretation, (London, New York: Methuen, Wiley, 1961) Main Library 1 s BF 175
Fordham, Frieda, An Introduction to Jung's Psychology, Pelican books. (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1966) Main Library 1 s BF 175. OK: very basic and rather humdrum.
Homans, Peter, Jung in Context, Modernity and the Making of a Psychology, (Chicago, London: University of Chicago Press, 1979, 1979) Main Library 1 s BF 175
Jacobi, Jolande, Complex, Archetype, Symbol in the Psychology of C.G.Jung, (London: Routledge & K.Paul, 1959) Main Library 1 BF 175. A good book: she was a close associate of Jung's.
Hoop, J. H. van der, Character and the Unconscious, a Critical Exposition of the Psychology of Freud and of Jung, (College Park, Md.: McGrath Publishing Co., 1970, 1970)
Kranefeldt, W. M., Secret Ways of the Mind, a Survey of the Psychological Principles of Freud, Adler, and Jung, (London: Trench, Trubner, 1934) Main Library 1 s BF 175
Levin, David M., Approaches to Psychotherapy: Freud, Jung, and Tibetan Buddhism, in The Metaphors of Consciousness, Ed. Ronald S. Valle and Rolf von Eckartsberg. (New York: Plenum, 1981) 243-274. This looks like my sort of book: how do you get hold of it, I wonder?
Philp, Howard Littleton, Jung and the Problem of Evil, (London: Rockliff, 1958) Main Library 1 BF 175
Samuels, Andrew, Jung and the Post-Jungians, (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985) Main Library 1 s BF 173.J85. I bought this but didn't read it: I found it a bit boring, frankly.
Singer, June K, Boundaries of the Soul, the Practice of Jung's Psychology, (Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday, 1972, 1972)
Steele, Robert S., Freud and Jung, Conflicts of Interpretation, Robert S. Steele, (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982) Main Library 1 s BF 175
Stevens, Anthony, On Jung, (London: Routledge, 1990)
Storr, Anthony, Jung, Fontana modern masters. (London: Fontana, 1973) Main Library 1 BF 175. I didn't like this, but I can't remember why.
Van der Post, Laurens, Jung and the Story of our Time, (London: Hogarth Press, 1976) Main Library 1 s BF 175. THIS BOOK IS TERRIBLE!
Vincie, Joseph F, C.G. Jung and Analytical Psychology, a Comprehensive Bibliography, (by) Joseph F. Vincie, Margreta Rathbauer-Vincie, Garland reference library of social science, 38. (New York, London: Garland, 1977, 1977) Main Library 1 s Z 8458.75
Wallis, Jack H., Jung and the Quaker way, (London: Quaker Home Service, 1988)
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