Books
A short reading list, with one sentence on what each book is for.
Sigmund Freud · W. W. Norton · 1923
The structural model. Ego, id and superego as it is actually argued rather than as it is summarised.
Sigmund Freud · W. W. Norton · 1926
Anxiety as signal rather than as discharge. The revision that underlies most later work on defence.
Sigmund Freud · Penguin Modern Classics · 1930
Freud on why culture costs us something. His most read work outside clinical circles.
C. G. Jung · Princeton University Press · 1921
Introversion, extraversion and the four functions, argued at length rather than as a personality quiz.
C. G. Jung · Routledge · 1933
The best entry point to Jung: eleven essays covering dream analysis, type, and the aims of therapy.
C. G. Jung · Princeton University Press · 1943
Where Jung sets out his break from Freud and the concept of individuation.
C. G. Jung · Princeton University Press · 1959
The core theoretical statement on archetype, anima and the collective layer of the psyche.
C. G. Jung · Fontana Press · 1962
Part autobiography, part confession. The nearest thing to Jung explaining himself.
C. G. Jung · Bantam · 1964
Written deliberately for a general reader, and the last thing Jung completed.
Anna Freud · Routledge · 1936
The systematic account of defence. Still the reference point for how the term is used clinically.