Psychoanalysis s/d - or should I bother at all?

Depends on what you mean. If you're looking for the reason you love your mother, PA is almost definitely the wrong place to look.

If, however, you are looking for ways of interpreting literature, you'll find some useful stuff in the psychos' writing.

Take care, though: Vladimir Nabokov was well versed in PA and exploited it in his literature. He wreaked havoc with it.

Psychopathology of Everyday Life and Interpretation of Dreams by Freud, and Man and His Symbols by Jung.
Transactional Analysis is better, try reading Games People Play and What Do You Say After You Say Hello? by Eric Berne, or if you wanna try Gestalt Therapy then read Gestalt Therapy Verbatim and In and Out of Garbage Pail by Fritz Perls.