Citing from the Collected Works of C.G. Jung

Accurate bibliographical citations are a necessary evil, and as it has been observed:

… the grand plan on which the unconscious life of the psyche is constructed is so inaccessible to our understanding that we can never know what evil may not be necessary in order to produce good … and what good may very possibly lead to evil. (Jung, 1948/1959, p. 215)

A sample citation in American Psychological Association format for something from the Collected Works of C.G. Jung:

 Jung, C.G. (1959). Phenomenology of the spirit in fairy tales (R. F. C. Hull, Trans.). In H. Read et al. (Series Eds.), The collected works of C.G. Jung (vol. 9 pt. 1, pp. 207-254). New York: Pantheon. (Original work published 1948)

Cite as: (Jung, 1948/1959).

The example on page 254 of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (American Psychological Association, 2001) for the Collected Works of Freud is:

Freud, S. (1961). The ego and the id. In J. Strachey (Ed. and Trans.), The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud (vol. 19, pp. 3-66). London: Hogarth Press. (Original work published 1923)

Cite as: (Freud, 1923/1961).

Notes: In both of these citations, the citation is for an essay/chapter in a book (American Psychological Association, 2001, pp. 252-255). The purpose of the citation is to enable someone to find the exact passage you are citing, so that they can examine the original context and disagree with you as to its meaning if they want to. The edition you are citing is important for this reason. Also, a good citation can tell the reader where you got the quotation and to have some idea as to how reliable it is. When it was first published and what the original German title was are useful and interesting, but are not expected in the APA citation format. Also unnecessary are the paragraph numbers (useful for indexing, but page numbers are normally used in citations) and the titles of the sections (helpful for the original editors as a way of organizing the CW, but confusing in a citation).

This copy of volume 9 part 1 has “copyright 1959” on the back of the title-page. Since there is no date of publication on the title-page, or any statement of the date of the edition, the most recent copyright date is the best to use for date of publication. The original date of publication “1948” is taken from the table of contents. The paper was presented at the Eranos-Tagung in 1945 and the lecture was first published in printed form in 1946, but the translation cited is actually based on a revision published in 1948 (Jung 1948/1959, p. 207, note), so the table of contents date is best. If you can’t figure out the original date of publication, I recommend that it be left blank.

The statement on the back of the title-page “Published for Bollingen Foundation, Inc. by Pantheon Books, Inc.” causes many to use “Bollingen Foundation” or “Bollingen” as the publisher. Although technically incorrect, it is a common enough way of describing books in the Bollingen Series so as to be acceptable. Many later volumes, and reprints of the older ones, were published by Princeton University Press.

Written by Richard Buchen, M.L.S., Special Collections Librarian, Pacifica Graduate Institute

revised April 29, 2003

Reference list for this page :

American Psychological Association. (2001). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.). Washington D.C.: Author.

Jung, C.G. (1959). Phenomenology of the spirit in fairy tales (R. F. C. Hull, Trans.). In H. Read et al. (Series Eds.), The collected works of C.G. Jung (vol. 9 pt. 1, pp. 207-254). New York: Pantheon. (Original work published 1948)

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