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Channel 2 – Suggested Readings

This document brings together the essential readings and suggested bibliography for Channel 2 of the Psychoanalysis Course. It is designed as a guide for students who wish to go deeper into the theoretical references discussed in each of the 10 modules. Whenever possible, we have selected books that can be purchased in print or digital format, so students can build their own psychoanalytic library.

 

Core Bibliography

• Freud, Sigmund – The Interpretation of Dreams (1900)
• Freud, Sigmund & Breuer, Josef – Studies on Hysteria (1895)
• Freud, Sigmund – Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905)
• Freud, Sigmund – Totem and Taboo (1913)
• Freud, Sigmund – Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920)
• Freud, Sigmund – The Ego and the Id (1923)
• Freud, Sigmund – Inhibition, Symptom and Anxiety (1926)
• Freud, Sigmund – Civilization and Its Discontents (1930)
• Freud, Sigmund – The Future of an Illusion (1927)
• Freud, Sigmund – Analysis Terminable and Interminable (1937)

• Lacan, Jacques – Seminar I, II, III (The Early Seminars)
• Lacan, Jacques – Seminar VII (The Ethics of Psychoanalysis)
• Lacan, Jacques – Seminar VIII (Transference)
• Lacan, Jacques – Seminar XI (The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis)
• Lacan, Jacques – Seminar XVII (The Other Side of Psychoanalysis)
• Lacan, Jacques – Seminar XX (Encore: On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love and Knowledge)

• Klein, Melanie – The Psycho-Analysis of Children (1932)
• Klein, Melanie – Contributions to Psychoanalysis (1921–1945)
• Klein, Melanie – Envy and Gratitude and Other Works (1946–1963)

• Bion, Wilfred – Learning from Experience (1962)
• Bion, Wilfred – Elements of Psychoanalysis (1963)
• Bion, Wilfred – Attention and Interpretation (1970)

• Winnicott, Donald – Playing and Reality (1971)
• Winnicott, Donald – The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment (1965)
• Winnicott, Donald – The Child, the Family, and the Outside World (1964)

• Laplanche, Jean & Pontalis, Jean-Bertrand – The Language of Psychoanalysis
• Etchegoyen, Horacio – The Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique (1991)

 

Suggested and Complementary Readings

• Anna Freud – The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence (1936)
• Erik Erikson – Childhood and Society (1950)
• Carl Jung – Psychological Types (1921)
• André Green – The Dead Mother (1986)
• André Green – The Work of the Negative (1999)
• Jean Laplanche – Essays on Otherness
• Élisabeth Roudinesco – Jacques Lacan: A Biography
• Bruce Fink – A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis
• Darian Leader – Why Do People Get Ill?
• Slavoj Žižek – The Sublime Object of Ideology
• Judith Butler – The Psychic Life of Power
• Michel Foucault – Discipline and Punish