In psychoanalytic theory, transference occurs when a client projects feelings about someone else, particularly someone encountered in childhood, onto her therapist. Frequently spoken about in reference to the therapeutic relationship, the classic example of sexual transference is falling in love with one’s therapist.

Lacanian psychoanalysis is a theory and practice of therapeutic treatment that then also provides coordinates for thinking about the relationship between subjectivity and language. As with other varieties of psychoanalysis, Lacanians take very seriously the unconscious and sexuality as defining points of their work.

Lacan drew heavily from the structuralist approach, but he was not a structuralist for two important reasons. First, while structuralism viewed the subject as a mere effect of symbolic structures, Lacan argued that the subject is not simply reducible to an effect of language and the symbolic order.

8 Best Psychoanalysis Books for Beginners

1. Contemporary Bionian Theory and Technique in Psychoanalysis. Antonino Ferro.
2. Body-Mind Dissociation in Psychoanalysis.
3. Reading French Psychoanalysis.
4. Dream Psychology.
5. Psychoanalysis from the Inside Out.
6. A Short Introduction to Psychoanalysis.
7. Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis.
8. The Shell and the Kernel.

Zizek’s How to Read Lacan is a fantastic starter, followed by Fink’s accessible works such as The Lacanian Subject, A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis, and Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique. You’d be astonished at the accessibility of Fink’s works.

Read on to know which are the 10 most popular books by Freud, ‘father of psychoanalysis’.

1. On Aphasia (1891)
2. Studies on Hysteria (1895)
3. The Interpretation of Dreams (1900)
4. Psychopathology of Everyday Life (1901)
5. Jokes and Their Relation to Unconscious (1905)
6. Leonardo da Vinci and A Memory of His Childhood (1910)

If you want to start with Jung himself, Collected Works Volume 7, Two Essays on Analytical Psychology is the easiest and recommended place to start. You can jump to Volume 9 Book 1 after that, though some might recommend reading Volume 5, Symbols of Transformation first.

In October 2009, with the cooperation of Jung’s estate, The Red Book was published by W. W. Norton in a facsimile edition, complete with an English translation, three appendices, and over 1,500 editorial notes. Editions and translations in several other languages soon followed.

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The Red Book is a mysterious book. If you stumble upon it without some orientation, it will likely seem overwhelmingly strange. Perhaps even off-putting. Sanu Shamdasani’s introduction to the Red Book is excellent and worth reading in it’s own right.