07 THEORY OF COMPLEXES & THE ASSOCIATION EXPERIMENT


A.              Basic literature
A.1.            C.G. Jung
CW 2            Experimental Researches. JCE2
                Part I: “Studies in Word Association”: “The Association of Normal
                Subjects”; “Experimental Observation on the Faculty of Memory”;
                “Psychoanalysis and Association Experiments”; “Association, Dream
                and Hysterical Symptom”; “The Psychological Diagnosis of Evidence”;
                “The Association Method”; “The Family Constellation”.
                Appendix: “On the Doctrine of Complexes”.
CW 3            The Psychogenesis of Mental Disease. JCE3

                “The Psychology of Dementia Praecox”
CW 8            The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche. JCE8
                “On Psychic Energy”
                “Review of the Complex Theory”


A.2.            Other Jungian publications
Amer, K.        “Histographic Challenges in Understanding the Development of
                Psychoanalysis: Connecting Flournoy, Freud and Jung and the
                Creative Unconscious”. The Independent Scholar Vol. 6 (February
                2020), pp. 4-8. Open access. XW156
Bovensiepen,    “Attachment-Dissociation Network: Some Thoughts About a Modern
G.              Complex Theory”. In: Journal of Analytical Psychology 51:3 (2006),
                pp. 451-466. Z7
Brewster, F.    The Racial Complex: Jungian Perspective on Culture and Race.
                London: Routledge, 2020. PA552
Cramer, P.      Word Association. New York: Academic, 1968. P32
Dieckmann, H.   Complexes: Diagnosis and Therapy in Analytical Psychology.
                Willmette: Chiron, 1999. PA-Di2E
Hill, J.        “Individuation and the Association Experiment”. In: Spring 1975, pp.
                145-151. XW36, Z18
Jacobi, J.      Complex / Archetype / Symbol in the Psychology of C. G. Jung. New
                York: Pantheon Books, 1959. PA-Ja3E
Kast, V.        The Dynamics of Symbols. New York: Fromm Int'l, 1992. PA-Ka11E
                The Association Experiment in the Therapeutic Context. Excerpts in
                English by Irene Gad. (Privately printed for the students.) XW5
                The Association Experiment in the Therapeutic Practice: C.G. Jung’s
                Groundbreaking Method for Exploring the Unconscious. Translated by
                Irene Gad. Jungianeum, 2025. PA-Ka36
Kimbles, S.    Intergenerational Complexes in Analytical Psychology. London:
               Routledge, 2021. PA613
Knox, J.       Archetype, Attachment, Analysis. Jungian Psychology and the
               Emergent Mind. London: Routledge, 2003. PA-332
Krieger, N.    Bridges to Consciousness: Complexes and Complexity. London:
               Routledge, 2014. PA435
               “A dynamic systems approach to the feeling toned complex”. Journal
               of Analytical Psychology Vol. 64:5 (2019), pp. 738-760. Z7
               “The Theory of Complexes”. Part of Contemporary Understandings of
               Analytical Psychology by the International Association for Analytical
               Psychology (IAAP), at https://iaap.org/jung-analytical-
               psychology/short-articles-on-analytical-psychology/the-theory-of-
               complexes/
Meier, C.A.    The Unconscious in Its Empirical Manifestations. Boston: Sigo, 1984.
               PA-Me1E
Meier, I.      “Basic needs and complexes: similarities between feeling-toned
               complexes, emotional schema and affective states”, Journal of
               Analytical Psychology Vol. 64:5 (2019), pp. 761-779. Z7
Ribi, A.       Demons of the Inner World: Understanding our Hidden Complexes.
               Boston: Shambhala, 1990. PA-Rb1E
Shalit, E.     The Complex: Path of Transformation from Archetype to Ego.
               Toronto: Inner City Books, 2002. PA202
Shamdasani,    Jung and the Making of Modern Psychology: The Dream of a Science.
S.             Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. JX76
Singer, T.     Vision, Reality and Complex: Jung, Politics and Culture. London:
               Routledge, 2021. PA579


A.3.           Non-Jungian publications
Solms, M.      “The Id Knows More than the Ego Admits: Neuropsychoanalytic and
Panksepp, J.   Primal Consciousness Perspectives on the Interface between Affective
               and Cognitive Neuroscience”. Brain Sciences 2(2), June 2012, pp.
               147-175. Open access:
               www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4061793


B.             Further literature
Alcaro, A.     “The Affective Core of the Self”. Frontiers in Psychology 01
Carta, S.      September 2017, pp. 1-13.
Panksepp, J.   https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01424
Panksepp, J.   The Archaeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human
Biven, L.      Emotions. New York: W. W. Norton, 2012. P264
