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In this paper the author examines the bibliography of the 44 final papers submitted by Jungian trainees in Berlin during a period from 1981 to 1995. The object of the investigation was to determine possible traditions in Jungian thought and method of treatment. The author used Fred Plaut's suggestion to approach this task by comparing the bibliographies of the final papers.
The article describes the final paper as being a special genre in psychoanalytic literature, marking as it does among other procedures, the transition from analytic adolescent to adult which is accompanied with a certain amount of anxiety. The author quotes Ron Britton (, p. 14) ‘fear of criticism by third parties who are looked upon as authorities as well as fear of rejection by colleagues to whom the author feels he needs to be connected’.
Through the bibliography the final paper represents some sort of an ideal selection of texts from the canon of literature the trainee feels he should have or wanted to understand. Also, literature is listed through which the trainee wanted to demonstrate his own ability to access material necessary for his work from without the canon, and then there are fashions in reading, based upon material heard in lectures and seminars or recommended by supervisors.