Why is there no psychoanalysis reading list? Who do I read after Freud?

damn

Nevermind that, where do I start with Freud?

3 Essays on the theory of sexuality
The man of the wolfes
The man of the Rats
Totem and Taboo
The interpretation of Dreams

Extra:

Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession

I have to admit I've read few psychanalysis books to the end, but I can recommend a few things based on what I know.

I think one thing is to try to get a gist of what is all about and the other is about getting real psychanalytic training. Psychanalysts come to practice based on three necessary things, one is reading the books and having a good theoretical knowledge, the other is attending classes and having a mentor (a proper course in a psychanalytic center, doesn't necessarily have to be psychology graduation), and go through analysis yourself. That takes several years.

But if you want to just know about it more or less, I recommend building knowledge on its background. How were the illnesses of the head treated in 19th century Europe? Who was Breuer? Who was Charcot? Which were the steps in Freud's career? Another important point is to keep reading other things. You're going to cross a lot of fields, from biology to linguistics to history. If you are interested in theater and mythology, that can help and a good background in philosophy is perhaps necessary. When you read other psychological work that is not psychanalysis, that too will help you. Psychanalysis comes from and is part of culture and does not exist in a vaccuum.

My personal reading of it is basicly a lot of snippets here and there. Articles by psychanalysts from my place, watching lectures and classes about it, reading extracted chapters from Freud, Lacan, etc. And going to analysis myself. I don't know much, but these are some of the books I've got to know though:

>General introduction texts
I've learned a lot from them and I judge them necessary. I don't remember any one in particular in this moment, but I strongly advise getting to know the context from one of these.

Not psychologists:
>Aristotle, Plato, Kant, Hegel, Descartes, Nietzsche, Darwin, Kierkegaard, Saussure, Levi-Strauss, etc
>Homer, Ovid, Shakespeare, Aesop, Andersen, etc
Read them.

>Man and his symbols by C.G. Jung et al
Written to be an intro to Jung's work. Initial chapters mention important things on the difference between Freud and Jung (Jung's pov of course)

>Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C. G. Jung
Now if you are really into him, this biography is a great read and it has a longer description on Freud and Jung's friendship.

*A note about Jung. He is certainly the most popular and accessible of them and thus he also seems the most important from a first contact with psychanalysis. But he is more or less on his own, for he took a route towards mysticism that diverged from the development of the method. One could say he prolongs himself on the content of unconscious images, while others were more interested in the structure of how this content forms.

>The Interpretation of Dreams by S. Freud
It's not a hard read, it might be a boring read to some, but it's the one book that started out with psychanalysis and will go on through his line of thinking about the formation of dreams.

>On Becoming a Person by C. Rogers
A different point of view, not exactly in line with other psychanalysis, but I like to recommend this for the examples in clinic and because he writes very well.

>How to read Lacan by S. Zizek
Good intro to Lacan imo, and he will cover, as you all know, the more political macro cosmic unfoldings of the world through lacanian pov.

>Less than Nothing by S. Zizek
Although this book is about Hegel, there is a long part of it that is mainly about Lacan to which you can read on its own more or less.

Lacan is a lot more difficult too understand, but I strongly recommend you to read articles on him and watch lectures, circling around what he is saying, because at first he sounds like making nonsense up, but as you build your understanding of his terms, the texts about it appear to open themselves up and they are truly remarkable. He is absolutely necessary to understand psychanalysis of today and as a matter of fact anything of philosophy from the past 50 years too.

>Jungfag who can't even spell psychoanalysis tries to give people advice

I'm no Jungfag, user. I get mixed up between psychoanalysis and psychanalysis because English is not my first language and we don't have that debate in ours. I know Jung spells it without the 'o', while others use the 'o'.

You're such a Jung fag you actually think the orthodox spelling is up for debate

This is no pseudo science

Just read Dostoyevsky and you’ll be fine.

nothing

in fact, don't even start Freud

psychoanalysis is jewish pseudo science

God damn, psychoanalysis was, is, and forever will be for retarded pseuds. Maybe the worst thing to ever happen to western civilization.

not yet

kek

YOU READ HERR DOKTOR REICH
YOU READ HERR DOKTOR REICH
YOU READ HERR DOKTOR REICH
YOU READ HERR DOKTOR REICH
YOU READ HERR DOKTOR REICH

EVERYONE ELSE IS JUST A DABBLER

project for a scientific psychology, he peaked early. all the early stuff is good tho

What I found looking that up
youtube.com/watch?v=lXz2KiFmJvw

This sounds like some hippie shit. Hippies totally cannibalized Wilhelm Reich's work. The orgone accumulator degraded into a "sex box." Sexual liberation degraded into a pornographic orgy. These people fried their brains and became useful idiots for Caesar.

Benjamin Rubenstein

The fascism book seems interesting, but the rest of his work looks like nonsense to me.

exactly you never read it and you won't understand that fascism book unless you do.