Literature

Freudian theories about mythology and religion examined by Stefan Stenudd

Here is a list of literature and web sources used in Psychoanalysis of Mythology. I have almost exclusively used the writings of the Freudians discussed in the text, and in some cases sources to which they referred.

Archetypes of Mythology

by Stefan Stenudd
This book examines Jungian theories on myth and religion, from Carl G. Jung to Jordan B. Peterson. Click the image to see the book at Amazon (paid link).

Psychoanalysis of Mythology

by Stefan Stenudd
This book examines Freudian theories on myth and religion, from Sigmund Freud to Erich Fromm. Click the image to see the book at Amazon (paid link).

Books

Abraham, Karl:
Dreams and Myths: A Study in Race Psychology, transl. William A. White, New York 1913 (originally published in German 1909).

Alexander, Franz & Eisenstein, Samuel & Grotjahn, Martin:
Psychoanalytic Pioneers, New York 1966.

Anderson, Rasmus B. (transl.):
The Younger Edda, Chicago 1880.

Aristotle:
Poetics, transl. Stephen Halliwell, London 1999.

Breuer, Josef & Freud, Sigmund:
Studies in Hysteria, transl. A. A. Brill, New York 1936 (originally published in German 1895).

Brown, Paula & Tuzin, Donald F. (ed.):
The Ethnography of Cannibalism, Washington D.C. 1983.

Budge, E. A. Wallis:
The Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani, New York 1967.
The Gods of the Egyptians: Studies in Egyptian Mythology, vol. 1 and 2, London 1904.

Campbell, Joseph:
The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Princeton 1968 (first edition 1949).

Darwin, Charles:
The Variation of Animals and Plant under Domestication, vol. 2, 2^nd edition, London 1875.

da Vinci, Leonardo:
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, transl. Edward MacCurdy, New York 1955 (first published in 1939).

Deutsch, Helene:
A Psychoanalytic Study of the Myth of Dionysus and Apollo: Two Variants of the Son-Mother Relationship, New York 1969.

Diogenes Laertius:
Lives of Eminent Philosophers, vol. 1 and 2, transl. R. D. Hicks, London 1925.

Eeden, Frederik van:
"A Study of Dreams," Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, vol. 26, Glasgow 1913.

Eliade, Mircea:
From Primitives to Zen: A Thematic Sourcebook of the History of Religions, New York 1967.
The Myth of the Eternal Return, transl. Willard R. Trask, New York 1954 (originally published in 1949). The 1959 edition was renamed Cosmos and History: The Myth of the Eternal Return, and the 1965 edition The Myth of the Eternal Return or, Cosmos and History.
The Quest: History and Meaning in Religion, Chicago 1969.

Ferenczi, Sándor:
Thalassa: A Theory of Genitality, transl. Henry Alden Bunker, New York 1938 (originally published in German 1924).

Frazer, James G.:
The Fear of the Dead in Primitive Religion, London 1933.
The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion, vol. 1 and 2, London 1890.
The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion, abridged edition, New York 1922.

Freeman, Kathleen:
The Pre-Socratic Philosophers, Oxford 1946.

Freud, Sigmund:
An Autobiographical Study, transl. James Strachey, London 1935 (originally published in 1925).
Civilization and Its Discontents (Das Unbehagen in der Kultur, 1930), transl. Joan Riviere, London 1930.
Civilization and Its Discontents, transl. James Strachey, New York 1962.
Das Unbehagen in der Kultur, Wien 1930.
Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety, transl. Alix Strachey, London 1936 (originally published in German 1926).
Leonardo da Vinci: A Psychosexual Study of an Infantile Reminiscence, transl. A. A. Brill, New York 1916.
"L'Hérédité et l'étiologie des névroses," Revue neurologique, volume 4 (6), Paris, 1896.
Moses and Monotheism, transl. Katherine Jones, Letchworth 1939 (originally published in German the same year as Der Mann Moses und die monotheistische Religion).
Sexuality and the Psychology of Love, New York 1963.
The Future of an Illusion, transl. James Strachey, New York 1961 (originally published in German 1927).
The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement, transl. A. A. Brill, New York 1917 (originally published in German 1914).
The Interpretation of Dreams, transl. A. A. Brill, New York 1913 (originally published in German 1899).
Totem and Taboo, transl. A. A. Brill, New York 1918 (originally published in German 1913).

Freud, Sigmund & Rank, Otto:
The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank: Inside Psychoanalysis, edited by E. James Lieberman and Robert Kramer, Baltimore 2012.

Fromm, Erich:
Escape from Freedom, New York 1976 (originally published in German 1941).
Greatness and Limitations of Freud's Thought, 1980.
Psychoanalysis and Religion, New Haven 1967.
The Dogma of Christ, and Other Essays on Religion, Psychology, and Culture, Greenwich Connecticut 1963.
The Forgotten Language: An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales and Myths, New York 1951.
You Shall Be as Gods: A Radical Interpretation of the Old Testament and Its Tradition, Greenwich 1966.

Gennep, Arnold van:
The Rites of Passage, Chicago 1960 (originally published in French 1909).

George, Andrew (transl.):
The Epic of Gilgamesh, London 1999.

Grosskurth, Phyllis:
The Secret Ring: Freud's Inner Circle and the Politics of Psychoanalysis, Reading 1991.

Hastings, James, ed.:
Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, 13 vols., Edinburgh 1908-1927.

Hertwig, Oscar:
"Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Bildung, Befruchtung und Theilung des thierischen Eies," Morphologisches Jahrbuch, vol. 1, Leipzig 1876.

Hesiod:
Theogony, transl. Glenn W. Most, Loeb 57, Cambridge Massachusetts 2006.

Jones, Ernest:
Essays in Applied Psycho-Analysis, London 1923.

Jung, Carl G.:
Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology, ed. Constance E. Long, London 1916, and 2^nd edition, New York 1917.
Contributions to Analytical Psychology, transl. H. G and C. F. Baynes, London 1928.
Psychological Types or The Psychology of Individuation, transl. H. Godwin Baynes, London 1923.
Psychology of the Unconscious, transl. Beatrice M. Hinkle, New York 1916 (originally published in German 1912 as Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido).
The Psychology of the Transference, New York 1998 (originally published in German 1946).
The Theory of Psychoanalysis, New York 1915 (originally published in German 1913 as Versuch einer Darstellung der psychoanalytischen).

Jung, Carl G. & Kerényi, Károly:
On a Science of Mythology: The Myth of the Divine Child and the Mysteries of Eleusis, transl. R. F. C. Hull, New York 1949 (originally published in 1942).

Jung, Carl G. & Riklin, Franz:
"Experimentelle Untersuchungen über Assoziationen Gesunder," Journal für Psychologie und Neurologie, Band III, Heft 5, 1904.

Koestler, Arthur:
The Act of Creation, New York 1964.

Kroeber, A. L.:
"Totem and Taboo: An Ethnologic Psychoanalysis," American Anthropologist, vol. 22, 1920.

Lang, Andrew:
Myth, Ritual & Religion, vol. 1 and 2, London 1887.

Lang, Andrew & Atkinson, James Jasper:
Social Origins & Primal Law, London 1903.

Legge, James:
The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Taoism, part 1, Oxford 1891.

Liddell, Henry George & Scott, Robert:
An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon, Oxford 1889.

Long, John:
Voyages and Travels of an Indian Interpreter and Trader, London 1791.

Marinelli, Lydia & Mayer, Andreas:
Dreaming by the book: Freud's interpretation of dreams and the history of the psychoanalytic movement, transl. Susan Fairfield, New York 2003 (originally published in German 2002).

Mason, J. Moussaieff:
The Oceanic Feeling: The Origins of Religious Sentiment in Ancient India, Dordrecht 1980, p. 34.

Meng, Heinrich & Freud, Ernst L. (ed.):
Psychoanalysis and Faith. The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Oskar Pfister, transl. Eric Mosbacher, New York 1963.

Merkur, Dan:
Psychoanalytic Approaches to Myth: Freud and the Freudians, New York 2005.

Müller, Max:
Lectures on the Science of Language, London 1861.

Nygren, Anders:
Agape and Eros, transl. Philip S. Watson, Philadelphia 1953 (originally published in Swedish as Den kristna kärlekstanken genom tiderna. Eros och Agape, part I 1930 and part II 1936).

Pfister, Oscar:
Christianity and Fear: A Study in History and in the Psychology and Hygiene of Religion, transl. W. H. Johnston, London 1948 (originally published in German 1944).
Some Applications of Psycho-Analysis, unnamed translator, London 1923 (originally published in German 1920 and 1921).
"The Illusion of a Future: A Friendly Disagreement with Prof. Sigmund Freud," transl. Susan Abrams & Tom Taylor, ed. Paul Roazen, The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, vol. 74 issue 3, London 1993 (originally published in German 1928).
The Psychoanalytic Method, transl. Charles Rockwell Payne, New York 1917 (originally published in German 1913).

Plato:
The Republic, transl. Paul Shorey, vol. 2, London 1942.

Poe, Edgar Allan:
The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, Boston 1917.

Rank, Otto:
The Double: A Psychoanalytic Study, transl. Harry Tucker jr., New York 1979 (originally published in German 1925).
The Myth of the Birth of the Hero: A Psychological Interpretation of Mythology, transl. F. Robbins and Smith Ely Jelliffe, New York 1914 (originally published in German 1909).
The Trauma of Birth, London 1929 (originally published in German 1924).

Read, John:
From Alchemy to Chemistry, New York 1995.

Reik, Theodor:
Ritual: Psycho-Analytic Studies, transl. Douglas Bryan, London 1931 (originally published in German 1928).

Rhodin, Lars:
Samling af swenska ordspråk, Stockholm 1807.

Riklin, Franz:
Wishfulfillment and Symbolism in Fairy Tales, transl. Wm. A. White, New York 1915 (originally published in German 1908).

Róheim, Géza:
"Primitive Man and Environment," The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, volume II:2, 1921.
The Eternal Ones of the Dream: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Australian Myth and Ritual, New York 1945.
The Panic of the Gods and Other Essays, New York 1972.

Sales, François de:
Œuvres complètes : Lettres, vol. 1, Paris 1821.

Schoonheten, Anna Bentinck van:
Karl Abraham: Life and Work, a Biography, transl. Liz Waters, New York 2018.

Sellin, Ernst:
Mose und seine Bedeutung für die israelitisch-jüdische Religionsgeschichte, Leipzig 1922.

Shakespeare, William:
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, London 1973.

Strindberg, August:
Plays by August Strindberg, transl. Edwin Björkman, New York 1912.

Tylor, Edward B.:
Primitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Art, and Custom, vol. 1 and 2, London 1871.
Researches Into the Early History of Mankind and the Development of Civilization, London 1865.

Web Sources

Alvarez, Sara et al.:
"Male-directed infanticide in spider monkeys," Primates, volume 56:2, 2015, p. 173 (springer.com).

Dorsey, John M.:
An American Psychiatrist in Vienna, 1935-1937, and His Sigmund Freud, Detroit 1976. (web.archive.org/web/20070626155735/ http://www.freud.org.uk/fmfaq.htm).

Dunham, Will:
"Infanticide common among adult males in many mammal species," Reuters, November 13, 2014 (reuters.com).

Jabr, Ferris:
"Study of Fetal Perception Takes Off," scientificamerican.com, 2015.

O'Toole, Garson:
"Genius Is One Percent Inspiration, Ninety-Nine Percent Perspiration," quoteinvestigator.com/2012/12/14/genius-ratio/.

Wikipedia:
"Scopes Trial."

Freudians on Myth and Religion

This text is an excerpt from my book Psychoanalysis of Mythology: Freudian Theories on Myth and Religion Examined from 2022. The excerpt was published on this website in February, 2026.

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