Reading List

Basic literature

C.G. Jung

Aion. JCE9/II

“Christ, a Symbol of the Self”.

Psychology and Religion: West and East. JCE11

“Psychology and Religion”.

“Answer to Job”.

“Forward to Suzuki’s Introduction to Zen Buddhism”.

“The Psychology of Eastern Meditation”.

“Forward to the I Ching”.

Psychology and Alchemy. JCE12

“Introduction to the Religious and Psychological Problems of Alchemy”.

Other Jungian publications

The Idea of the Numinous: Contemporary Jungian and Psychoanalytic Perspectives. London: Routledge, 2006. PA305

The Ass of Apuleius: The Liberation of the Feminine in Man. Boston: Shambhala, 1992. PA-Fa13E

Archetypal Dimensions of the Psyche. Boston: Shambhala, 1997. PA-Fa9E
Chapter: “The Unknown Visitor in Fairy Tales and Dreams”;
Chapter: “Nike and the Waters of the Styx”.

The Passion of Perpetua: A Psychological Interpretation of Her Visions. Toronto: Inner City, 2004. PA-Fa24E

Niklaus von Flüe and Saint Perpetua: A Psychological Interpretation of Their Visions. Collected Works of Marie-Louise von Franz, Volume 6. Asheville, N.C.: Chiron, 2022. PA-FaCW6

History of Religious Ideas. 3 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978-1988. XR2:1-3

The Jung-White Letters. London: Routledge, 2007. JCE-L4

Amor and Psyche: The Psychic Development of the Feminine. New York: Princeton University Press, 1971. PA-N2E

The Idea of the Holy: An Inquiry into the Non-Rational Factor in the Idea of the Divine and its Relation to the Rational. London: Oxford University Press, 1968. RC1E

The Sungod’s Journey Through the Netherworld: Reading the Ancient Egyptian Amduat. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010. PA-Sz2E

The Self in Transformation. London: Karnac, 2007. PA255

Jung’s Treatment of Christianity: The Psychotherapy of a Religious Tradition. Wilmette: Chiron Publications, 1985. PA-St6

Non-Jungian publications

Alone with the Alone. Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn ‘Arabi. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. RI2

The Transformation of the God-Image: An Elucidation of Jung´s Answer to Job. Toronto: Inner City Books, 1992. PA-Ed12

History of Religious Ideas. 3 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978-1988. XR2:1-3

Descent to the Goddess: A Way of Initiation for Woman. Toronto: Inner City Books, 1989. PA56E

Further literature

Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: The One and the Many. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982. RA33E

Psyche in Scripture: The Idea of the Chosen People and Other Essays. Toronto: Inner City Books, 1995. PA138

Satan in the Old Testament. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1967. RJ23

The Religion of the Greeks and Romans. London: Thames and Hudson, 1962. GG58

Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. GG9E

Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years. London: Penguin, 2010. RC67

Descent to the Goddess: A Way of Initiation for Woman. Toronto: Inner City Books, 1989. PA56E

Mystical Dimensions of Islam. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993. RI3E

Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism. New York: Schoken, 1995. RJ2E

An Introduction to Zen Buddhism. New York: Grove Press 1994. RB4E

Philosophies of India. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969. RH17