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Channel 1:

This document brings together the essential readings and suggested bibliography for Channel 1 of the Psychoanalysis Course. It is designed as a guide for students who wish to go deeper into the theoretical and clinical references discussed across the 12 seminars. Whenever possible, we have selected books that can be purchased in print or digital format, allowing students to progressively build their own psychoanalytic library.

Core Bibliography

• Sigmund Freud – The Interpretation of Dreams (1900)
• Sigmund Freud – Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through (1914)
• Sigmund Freud – On Narcissism: An Introduction (1914)
• Sigmund Freud – The Dynamics of Transference (1912)
• Sigmund Freud – Observations on Transference Love (1915)
• Sigmund Freud – Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920)
• Sigmund Freud – The Ego and the Id (1923)
• Sigmund Freud – Negation (1925)
• Sigmund Freud – Inhibitions, Symptoms, and Anxiety (1926)
• Sigmund Freud – Analysis Terminable and Interminable (1937)
• Sigmund Freud – Constructions in Analysis (1937)

• Jacques Lacan – Seminar I: Freud’s Papers on Technique
• Jacques Lacan – Seminar II: The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis
• Jacques Lacan – Seminar XI: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis
• Jacques Lacan – Seminar XV: The Act of the Analyst (excerpts)

• Melanie Klein – The Psycho-Analysis of Children
• Melanie Klein – Envy and Gratitude and Other Works
• Melanie Klein – Love, Guilt and Reparation and Other Works

• Donald Winnicott – Playing and Reality
• Donald Winnicott – The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment
• Donald Winnicott – Through Paediatrics to Psycho-Analysis

• Wilfred Bion – Learning from Experience
• Wilfred Bion – Elements of Psychoanalysis
• Wilfred Bion – Transformations

• Jean Laplanche & Jean-Bertrand Pontalis – The Language of Psychoanalysis

Suggested Readings

• Darian Leader – Why Do People Get Ill?
• Bruce Fink – A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis
• Élisabeth Roudinesco – Jacques Lacan: A Biography
• Russell Grigg – Lacan, Language, and Philosophy
• André Green – The Work of the Negative
• Judith Butler – The Psychic Life of Power
• Michel Foucault – Discipline and Punish
• Freud’s Classical Case Studies – Anna O., Little Hans, Rat Man, Dora
• Jacques Lacan – Seminar VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis
• Selected articles from the International Journal of Psychoanalysis (on technique, transference, countertransference)
• Sheila Kunkle (ed.) – Lacan and Contemporary Film
• S.J. Carroll – “Obsessional Neurosis” (Medium Article)