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Jungian theories about mythology and religion examined by Stefan Stenudd



Archetypes of Mythology. Book by Stefan Stenudd. 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. Book by Stefan Stenudd. 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).


Addison, Joseph et al.:
The Medleys for the Year 1711, no 39, London 1712.

Aeschylus:
"Eumenides," Oresteia, transl. Richmond Lattimore, Chicago 1953.

Aristotle:
Metaphysics, transl. Hugh Lawson-Tancred, London 1998.
Poetics, transl. Stephen Halliwell, Loeb 199, London 1999.

Augustine:
Eighty-three Different Questions, transl. David L. Mosher, Washington D.C. 1982.

Bandelier, Adolf F.:
The Delight Makers, New York 1916 (first edition 1890).

Bodkin, Maud:
Archetypal Patterns in Poetry: Psychological Studies of Imagination, London 1934.
"Archetypal Patterns in Tragic Poetry,"British Journal of Psychology, volume 21:2, 1930.

Brinton, Daniel G.:
“The Chief God of the Algonkins, in His Character as a Cheat and Liar,”The American Antiquarian, May 1885.
The Myths of the New World: A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America, New York 1868.

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.

Byrom, Michael:
Punch and Judy: Its Origin and Evolution, London 1978.

Campbell, Joseph:
An Open Life: Joseph Campbell in Conversation with Michael Toms, New York 1988.
The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology, New York 1959.
The Masks of God: Oriental Mythology, London 1962.
The Masks of God: Occidental Mythology, New York 1991 (first published in 1964).
The Masks of God: Creative Mythology, New York 1976 (first published in 1968).
The Hero With a Thousand Faces, Princeton 1972 (first edition 1949).

Campbell, Joseph & Robinson, Henry Morton:
A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake, New York 1944.

Dawkins, Richard:
The Selfish Gene, New York 1978 (first edition 1976).

Descartes, René:
Meditations on First Philosophy, transl. George Heffernan, Notre Dame, Indiana 1990 (originally published in Latin 1641).

Deussen, Paul:
Die Geheimlehre des Veda, 2nd ed., Leipzig 1907.

Doniger, Wendy:
The Rig Veda: An Anthology, London 1981.

Duckworth, George E.:
The Nature of Roman Comedy: A Study in Popular Entertainment, Princeton 1952.

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

Eliade, Mircea:
A History of Religious Ideas, vol. 1, transl. Willard R. Trask, Chicago 1978 (originally published in French 1976).
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 French 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.
The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion, transl. Willard R. Trask, New York 1959 (originally published in French 1957).

Eliade, Mircea (ed.):
The Encyclopedia of Religion, vol. 4, New York 1987.

Encyclopædia Britannica:
11th edition, volume XI, New York 1910.

Evans-Pritchard, Edward Evan:
The Zande Trickster, Indiana 1967.

Flournoy, Théodore:
From India to the Planet Mars: A Study of a Case of Somnambulism with Glossolalia, transl. Daniel B. Vermilye, New York 1900.

Franz, Marie-Louise von:
An Introduction to the Interpretation of Fairy Tales, New York 1970.
C. G. Jung: His Myth in Our Time, transl. William H. Kennedy, New York 1975 (originally published in German 1972).
Creation Myths, Boston 1995 (first edition 1972: Patterns of Creativity Mirrored in Creation Myths).

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.

Freud, Sigmund:
Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety, transl. Alix Strachey, London 1936.
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.
Sexuality and the Psychology of Love, New York 1963.
The Future of an Illusion, transl. James Strachey, New York 1961.
The Interpretation of Dreams, transl. A. A. Brill, New York 1913 (originally published in German 1899).
The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank: Inside Psychoanalysis, edited by E. James Lieberman and Robert Kramer, Baltimore 2012.
Three Contributions to the Sexual Theory, transl. A. A. Brill, New York 1910 (originally published in German 1905).
Totem and Taboo, transl. A. A. Brill, New York 1918.

Fromm, Erich:
Escape from Freedom, New York 1976.
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.

Frye, Northrop:
Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays, Princeton 1957.

Grimm, Jacob:
Teutonic Mythology, vol. 3, transl. James Steven Stallybrass, London 1883.

Grimm, Jacob & Wilhelm:
Kinder und Hausmärchen, vol. I, Göttingen 1857.

Hartmann, Eduard von:
Philosophy of the Unconscious, transl. William Chatterton Coupland, vol. 1-3, London 1884.

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

Heidel, Alexander:
The Babylonian Genesis: The Story of Creation, Chicago 1963 (first edition 1942).

Henderson, Joseph L.:
Cultural Attitudes in Psychological Perspective, Toronto 1984.
Thresholds of Initiation, Middletown 1979 (first edition 1967).

Henderson, Joseph L. & Oakes, Maud:
The Wisdom of the Serpent: The Myths of Death, Rebirth, and Resurrection, Princeton 1990 (first edition 1963).

Hillman, James:
Insearch: Psychology and Religion, Dallas 1984 (first published in 1967).
Re-Visioning Psychology, New York 1975.
The Myth of Analysis: Three Essays in Archetypal Psychology, Evanston 1972.
The Soul’s Code: In Search of Character and Calling, New York 1996.
"Why ‘Archetypal Psychology’?"Spring: An Annual of Archetypal Psychology and Jungian Thought, New York 1970, pp. 212-219.

Holberg, Ludvig:
Jeppe on the Hill, transl. Waldemar C. Westergaard & Martin B. Ruud, Grand Forks 1906 (originally written in Danish 1722).

Huizinga, Johan:
Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture, Boston 1955 (originally published in Dutch 1948).

Irenaeus:
Five Books of S. Irenaeus, transl. John Kemble, Oxford 1872.

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

Joyce, James:
Finnegans Wake, London 1939, p. 581.

Jung, Carl G.:
Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology, transl. M. D. Eder, ed. Constance E. Long, London 1916, and 2nd edition, New York 1917.
Contributions to Analytical Psychology, transl. H. G and C. F. Baynes, London 1928.
"Instinct and the Unconscious," transl. C. F. and H. G. Baynes, British Journal of Psychology, X, London 1919.
Jung Speaking: Interviews and Encounters, edited by William McGuire and R. F. C. Hull, Princeton 1977.
"La Structure de l’inconscient," transl. M. Marsen, Archives de Psychologie, XVI, Geneva 1916.
Modern Man in Search of a Soul, transl. W. S. Dell and Cary F. Baines, London 1933.
Psychological Types or The Psychology of Individuation, transl. H. Godwin Baynes, London 1923 (originally published in German 1921).
Psychology and Religion, New Haven 1977.
Psychology of the Unconscious, transl. Beatrice M. Hinkle, New York 1916 (originally published in German as Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido, 1912).
The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, vol. 1, Princeton 1975.
The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, vol. 4, Princeton 1985.
The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, vol. 5, Princeton 1976.
The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, vol. 7, Princeton 1966, 1972.
The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, vol. 9.1, Princeton 1969.
The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, vol. 11, New York 1958.
The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, vol. 12, Princeton 1968.
The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, vol. 13, Princeton 1983.
The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, vol. 17, Princeton 1970.
"The Difference between Eastern and Western Thinking," The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation, edited by W. Y. Evans-Wentz, London 1954.
The Integration of the Personality, transl. Stanley Dell, London 1940.
The Portable Jung, edited by Joseph Campbell, New York 1971.
The Psychology of the Transference (originally published in German 1946), New York 1998.
The Theory of Psychoanalysis, New York 1915.
The Undiscovered Self: with Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams, transl. R.F.C. Hull, Princeton 2010.
“Traumsymbole des Individuationsprozesses,” Eranos-Jahrbuch 1935, Zürich 1936.
Two Essays on Analytical Psychology, transl. H. G. and C. F. Baynes, London 1928.

Jung, Carl G. & von Franz, Marie-Louise (ed.):
Man and his Symbols, New York 1964.

Jung, Carl G. & Jaffé, Aniela:
Memories, Dreams, Reflections, transl. Richard & Clara Winston, New York 1965 (originally published in German 1962).

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 German 1941 as Einführung in das Wesen der Mythologie).

Kant, Immanuel:
Kritik of Judgment, transl. by J. H. Bernard, London 1892.

Kerényi, Károly:
Asklepios: Archetypal Image of the Physician’s Existence, transl. Ralph Manheim, New York 1959 (originally published in German 1947 and revised in 1956).
Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter, transl. Ralph Manheim, New York 1967 (originally published in German 1960).
Zeus and Hera: Archetypal Image of Father, Husband, and Wife, transl. Christopher Holme, Princeton 1975 (originally published in German 1972).

Kirsch, Thomas B.:
The Jungians: A Comparative and Historical Perspective, London 2000.

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

Leach, Maria:
The Beginning: Creation Myths around the World, New York 1956.

Lee, Richard B. & Daly, Richard, ed.:
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Hunters and Gatherers, Cambridge 1999.

Leeming, David Adams:
Creation Myths of the World: An Encyclopedia, Santa Barbara 2010.
Myth: A Biography of Belief, New York 2002.
Mythology: The Voyage of the Hero, second edition, New York 1981 (first edition 1973).

Leeming, David Adams & Leeming, Margaret Adams:
A Dictionary of Creation Myths, New York 1995 (first published in 1994 as The Encyclopedia of Creation Myths).

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

Long, Charles H.:
Alpha: The Myths of Creation, New York 1963.
"Cosmogony," The Encyclopedia of Religion, ed. Mircea Eliade et al., volume 4, New York 1987.
"Creation, Myths and Doctrines of,"The New Encyclopædia Britannica, Macropædia vol. 5, Chicago 1976.
Significations: Signs, Symbols, and Images in the Interpretation of Religion, Philadelphia 1986.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth:
The Song of Hiawatha, London 1855.

Maury, Alfred:
"Des hallucinations hypnagogiques ou erreur des sens dans l’état intermédiaire entre la veille et le sommeil," Annales médico-psychologiques, vol. XI, Paris 1848.

Miller, Miss Frank:
"Some Instances of Subconscious Creative Imagination," Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, vol. 1 no. 6, New York 1907.

Mooney, James:
Myths of the Cherokee, Washington 1902.

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

Murray, Gilbert:
The Classical Tradition in Poetry, London 1927.

Myers, Frederic W. H.:
Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death, vol. 1, New York 1903.

Neumann, Erich:
Depth Psychology and a New Ethic, transl. Eugene Rolfe, London 1969 (originally published in German 1949).
Johann Arnold Kanne: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der mystischen Sprachphilosophie, University of Erlangen 1927.
The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype, transl. Ralph Manheim, Princeton 1972 (first edition 1955).
The Origins and History of Consciousness, transl. R. F. C. Hull, New York 1970 (originally published in German 1949).

Noll, Richard:
The Jung Cult: Origins of a Charismatic Movement, Princeton 1994.

Orwell, George:
Road to Wigan Pier, London 1937.

Otto, Rudolf:
The Idea of the Holy: An Inquiry into the non-rational factor in the idea of the divine and its relation to the rational, transl. John W. Harvey, 1943 (originally published in German 1917).

Owens, Lance S.:
C. G. Jung and Erich Neumann: The Zaddik, Sophia and the Shekinah, PDF 2017.

Parsons, Elsie Clews & Beals, Ralph L.:
"The Sacred Clowns of the Pueblo and Mayo-Yaqui Indians," American Anthropologist, vol. 36:4, 1934.

Pertegato & Pertegato, ed.:
From Psychoanalysis to Group Analysis: The Pioneering Work of Trigant Burrow, London 2013.

Peterson, Jordan B.:
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, Canada 2018.
Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life, New York 2021.
Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief, New York 1999.

Philo:
Philo I, transl. F. H. Colson and G. H. Whitaker, Loeb 226, London 1929.

Plato:
The Dialogues of Plato, vol. I and II (of 5), transl. Benjamin Jowett, Oxford 1892 (first edition 1871).
The Republic, transl. Paul Shorey, vol. 2, London 1942.

Plotinus:
The Enneads, transl. Stephen MacKenna, revised by B. S. Page, London 1956.

Plutarch:
Essays and Miscellanies, vol. 3, transl. William W. Goodwin, Boston 1909.

Purves, Dale et al. (ed.):
Neuroscience, 5th edition, Sunderland 2012.

Radin, Paul:
The Trickster: A Study in American Indian Mythology, New York 1956.
Winnebago Hero Cycles: A Study in Aboriginal Literature, Baltimore 1948.

Radin, Paul et al.,
Der göttliche Schelm: Ein indianischer Mythen-Zyklus, Zürich 1954.

Rank, Otto:
The Double: A Psychoanalytic Study, transl. Harry Tucker jr, New York 1979.
The Myth of the Birth of the Hero: A Psychological Interpretation of Mythology, transl. F. Robbins and Smith Ely Jelliffe, New York 1914.
The Trauma of Birth, London 1929.

Rasmussen, Knud:
Festens gave: Eskimoiske Alaska-Æventyr, Copenhagen 1929.

Read, John:
From Alchemy to Chemistry, New York 1995 (first edition 1957).

Riklin, Franz:
Wishfulfillment and Symbolism in Fairy Tales, transl. Wm. A. White, New York 1915.

Rohde, Douglas L. T. et al.:
"Modelling the recent common ancestry of all living humans," Nature, vol. 431, London 2004.

Schelling, Friedrich von:
System of Transcendental Idealism, transl. Peter Heath, Charlottesville 1978.

Segal, Robert A.:
Jung on Mythology, Princeton 1998.

Shakespeare, William:
Hamlet, edited by John Livingstone Lowes, New York 1914.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, London 1973.

Shamdasani, Sonu:
"A woman called Frank," Spring: Journal of Archetype and Culture, volume 50 (1990), New York 1991.

Smith, Winifred:
The Commedia Dell’Arte: A Study in Italian Popular Comedy, New York 1912.

Sproul, Barbara C.:
Primal myths: Creation Myths around the World, San Francisco 1991 (first edition 1979).

Stenudd, Stefan:
Psychoanalysis of Mythology: Freudian Theories on Myth and Religion Examined, Malmö 2022.
Tao Te Ching: The Taoism of Lao Tzu Explained, Malmö 2015.

Stevens, Anthony:
Archetypes: A Natural History of the Self, New York 1982.
Archetype Revisited: An Updated Natural History of the Self, Toronto 2003.
Ariadne's Clue: A Guide to the Symbols of Humankind, Princeton 1999.

Sundstedt, Kjell:
Att skriva för film, Stockholm 2000.

Suzuki, D. T.:
An Introduction to Zen Buddhism, New York 1964.

Taylor, Eugene:
The Mystery of Personality: A History of Psychodynamic Theories, New York 2009.

Theophrastus:
The Characters of Theophrastus, transl. J. M. Edmonds, Loeb 225N, London 1929.

Thomas, Edward J.:
Early Buddhist Scriptures, London 1935.

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.

Vogler, Christopher:
The Writer’s Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers, Saline Michigan 2007.

Werblowsky, Raphael Jehudah Zwi:
Lucifer and Prometheus: A Study of Milton’s Satan, London 1952.

Wilhelm, Richard:
The I Ching or Book of Changes, transl. Cary F. Baynes, Princeton 1971 (originally published in German 1924).

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"Highway Hypnosis: An Hypothesis," International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, vol. 11:3, Philadelphia 1963.

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"An Historical Note on Highway Hypnosis,"Accident Analysis and Prevention, vol. 2:3, New York 1970.

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Philosophical Investigations, transl. G. E. M. Anscombe, New York 1953.

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Jungians on Myth and Religion

  1. Introduction
  2. Erich Neumann
  3. Károly Kerényi
  4. Joseph L. Henderson
  5. Joseph Campbell
  6. Mircea Eliade
  7. Marie-Louise von Franz
  8. Charles H. Long
  9. James Hillman
  10. Anthony Stevens
  11. David Adams Leeming
  12. Jordan B. Peterson
  13. Literature

This text is an excerpt from my book Archetypes of Mythology: Jungian Theories on Myth and Religion Examined from 2022. The excerpt was published on this website in January, 2023.

© Stefan Stenudd 2022, 2023


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