Jung Reading List
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)
Literary Criticism
Andriano, Joseph, "Archetypal Projection in 'Ligeia': A Post-Jungian
Reading," Poe Studies 19(2) (1986): 27-31. Main Library
1 s per q PS 2629.P6
Armistead, Myra, "'Childe Roland' and Two Other Poems by Browning,"
Victorian Newsletter 66 (1984): 22-24. Main Library 1 s per
q PR 1.V5
Assad, Thomas J., Tennysonian Lyric: "Songs of the Deeper Kind"
and In Memoriam, Tulane Univ. , 1983) Main Library 1 s per PR 1.T8-24
Cramer, Patricia, "The Role of Ahania's Lament in Blake's Book of
Ahania: A Psychoanalytical Study," Journal of English and Germanic
Philology 83(4) (1984): 522-533. Main Library 1 s per PB 1.A4J65
Davies, Robertson, "Jung, Yeats and the Inner Journey," Queen's
Quarterly 89(3) (1982): 471-477. Main Library 1 s per AS 42.Q8\par
Dawson, Terence, "The Struggle for Deliverance from the Father: The
Structural Principle of Wuthering Heights," The Modern Language
Review 84(2) (1989): 289-304. Main Library 1 s per PB 1.R3
Doll, Mary A., "Rites of Story: The Old Man at Play," Myth
and Ritual in the Plays of Samuel Beckett, Ed. Katherine H. Burkman
(Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson UP;, 1987) 73-85. Main Library 1 PR 6003.E2
Draper, Michael, "Wells, Jung and the Persona," English
Literature in Transition (1880-1920) 30(4) (1987): 437-449. Main
Library 1 s per PR 1.E6L5
Falk, David, "Self and Shadow: The Brothers Firmin in Under the Volcano,"
Texas Studies in Literature and Language 27(2) (1985): 209-223.
Main Library 1 s per PR 1.S71
Guth, Deborah, "Archetypal Worlds Reappraised: The French Lieutenant's
Woman and Le Grand Meaulnes," Comparative Literature Studies
22(2) (1985): 244-251. Main Library 1 s per PN 2.C62
Hoffman, Steven K., "Sailing into the Self: Jung, Poe, and 'MS. Found
in a Bottle'," Tennessee Studies in Literature 26 (1981):
66-74. Main Library 1 s per PN 2.T4-28
Kugler, Paul K., "Involuntary Poetics," New Literary History:
A Journal of Theory and Interpretation 15(3) (1984): 491-501. Main
Library 1 s per PN 1.N39
Larsen, Elizabeth, "Lawrence's The Man Who Died," Explicator
40(4) (1982): 38-40. Main Library 1 s per PR 1.E9
MacLean, Kenneth, "Wild Man and Savage Believer: Caliban in Shakespeare
and Browning," Victorian Poetry 25(1) (1987): 1-16. Main
Library 1 s per PR 500.V5
Meurs, Jos van and John Kidd, Jungian Literary Criticism, 1920-1980
; An Annot., Crit. Bibliog. of Works in English (with Selection of Titles
after 1980, Scarecrow, 1988)
Mumford, Marilyn R., "A Jungian Reading of Sir Orfeo and Orpheus and
Eurdices," Scottish Studies (Frankfurt am Main) 4 (1984):
291-302. Main Library 1 s per DA 750.S3
O'Brien, Timothy D., "The Shadow and Anima in Sir Orfeo," Mediaevalia:
A Journal of Mediaeval Studies 10 (1988): 235-254. Main Library
1 s per PQ 4001.E7-2/3
O'Hara, J. D., "Jung and the Narratives of Molloy," Journal
of Beckett Studies 7 (1982): 19-47. Main Library 1 s per PR 6001.E2A1
Phillips, Robert and Branimir Rieger, "The Agony and the Ecstasy:
A Jungian Analysis of Two Vampire Novels, Meredith Ann Pierce's The Darkangel
and Bram Stoker's Dracula," West Virginia University Philological
Papers 31 (1986): 10-19. Main Library 1 s per P 1.P4
Robinson, Fred Miller, "The History and Significance of the Bowler
Hat: Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, Beckett, Magritte and Kundera," TriQuarterly
66 (1986): 173-200. Main Library 1 s per AP 2.N6
Sawyer, Tom, "The Shadow in the Garden: Auden's Jungian Quests,"
Ariel: A Review of International English Literature 15(1)
(1984): 67-85. Main Library 1 s per PR 1.R5
Sheppard, Richard W., "Tricksters, Carnival, and the Magical Figures
of Dada Poetry," Forum for Modern Language Studies 19(2)
(1983): 116-125. Main Library 1 s per PB 1.F6
Snider, Clifton, "Merlin in Victorian Poetry: A Jungian Analysis,"
Victorian Newsletter 72 (1987): 51-54. Main Library 1 s per
q PR 1.V5
Watson, Irene G., "Lessing's 'To Room Nineteen'," Explicator
47(3) (1989): 54-55. Main Library 1 s per PR 1.E9
Young, Gloria L., "Quest and Discovery: Joseph Conrad's and Carl Jung's
African Journeys," Modern Fiction Studies 28(4) (1982-1983):
583-589.
Relevant others
Campbell, Joseph, The hero with a thousand faces, Bollingen
series, 2 ed. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1968) 17. Main Library
1 s BL 313
Frye, Northrop, Anatomy of criticism, four essays, (Princeton,
N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1957) Main Library 5 PN 81
Jung, C. G., ed., Man and his symbols , (London: Pan Books,
1978); not in the library computer, but check the card index.
Lessing, Doris, Briefing for a Descent Into Hell, (London:
Cape, 1971) Main Library 1 PR 6023.E8
Lessing, Doris, The Golden Notebook, (London: Joseph, 1972)
Main Library 1 PR 6023.E8