Freudian/Jungian Literature

[youpushme]

I am looking for ANY books or plays in which I can garner a sufficient Jungian or Freudian analysis. Does anyone have any suggestions? I am currently reading as much as Dostoevksy I can get my hands on and finding a lot of interesting links. Ideas and thoughts appreciated. Thanks!

[Lokasenna]

I've previously written about Jungian archetypes in Medieval literature... just go have a gander at pretty much anything pre-Renaissance and you'll find stuff.

As for Freud, I've used his theories of the 'unheimlich' for literary analysis before now. Try some Henry James... I remember The Turn of The Screw being good for that. Oh, and so was Great Expectations.

[kelby_lake]

I am looking for ANY books or plays in which I can garner a sufficient Jungian or Freudian analysis. Does anyone have any suggestions? I am currently reading as much as Dostoevksy I can get my hands on and finding a lot of interesting links. Ideas and thoughts appreciated. Thanks!

Freud loved finding incest in Hamlet. Try the Greek classic plays- Freud's dream.

[ennison]

Strindberg

[mono]

Freud loved finding incest in Hamlet. Try the Greek classic plays- Freud's dream.
Kelby beat me to it, and I second both of these recommendations. Freud even went so far to derive his theory names off of ancient Greek tales, hence we now have "Oedipus complex" and "Electra/Elektra complex" practically in common human speech. Allegedly Dr. Freud also did analyses upon Edgar Allan Poe's short stories, some Romantic and Victorian poetry (specifically Matthew Arnold), and, as Lokasenna mentioned, Henry James.
According to Memories, Dreams, Reflections, the autobiography by Carl Jung, I recall him reading a lot of Nietzsche (particularly his pseudofictional, philosophical tale, Thus Spake Zarathustra), H. Rider Haggard, Longfellow, and he had an immense interest in ancient Asian texts, particularly Chinese.
Other texts a common reader may find some Freudian and Jungian themes, whether intentional or not: those by D.H. Lawrence, Fyodor Dostoevsky, James Joyce, and almost any ancient Greco-Roman poet/playwright.

[AuntShecky]

If memory serves, an illustration of Freudian analysis can be found in The White Hotel by D.M. Thomas and Jungian therapy in The Manticore, the second novel in Robertson Davies's Deptford trilogy.

[MarkBastable]

I am looking for ANY books or plays in which I can garner a sufficient Jungian or Freudian analysis. Does anyone have any suggestions? I am currently reading as much as Dostoevksy I can get my hands on and finding a lot of interesting links. Ideas and thoughts appreciated. Thanks!

Fifth Business - Robertson Davies....

...er... or maybe it was The Manticore

[ennison]

Seems I may as well have said Drogba (brilliant Chelsea striker) as Strinberg.

[mal4mac]

Harold Bloom is heavily influenced by Freud, see his magnum opus "The Western Canon", which has a lot on Freud and his place in the canon. Try Richard Ellmann's biography of James Joyce to get a picture of Jung's (stormy!) relationship with Joyce and his works -- Joyce's daughter was schizophrenic and was treated by Jung - without success...

[Silas Thorne]

I think Herman Hesse's work would suit Jungian analysis well.

[Dinkleberry2010]

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[Dinkleberry2010]

Freud wrote an essay titled "Dostoevsky and Parricide" in which he delves into The Brothers Karamazov. Freud was also greatly influenced by Sophocles' play Oedipus Rex. Nietzsche was not an influence on Freud, but he was on Jung--especially his works Thus Spake Zarathrustra, Beyond Good and Evil and The Will to Power. Jung was also influenced by Herman Hesse and wrote an essay about him titled "Herman Hesse." Joseph Campbell in turn was greatly influenced by Jung, and he wrote articles about Jung as well as edited The Portable Jung.