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Sabina Spielrein

Forgotten Pioneer of Psychoanalysis

• Edited by Coline Covington, Barbara Wharton

• Price: $52.95 $47.66
• Binding: Hardback
• Pages: 328
• Published by: Routledge
• Publication Date: 7th August 2003
• ISBN: 978-1-58391-903-3

About the Book

Sabina Spielrein is perhaps best known for her love affair with her doctor, Carl Gustav Jung. She met Jung when she was admitted to Burghölzli Clinic in Zürich in 1904 as a young woman of 19, where Jung diagnosed the highly intelligent woman as hysteric. Their intense relationship gave rise to some of the most important ideas within psychoanalysis and analytical psychology today, notably the death instinct.

Sabina Spielrein: Forgotten Pioneer of Psychoanalysis is an invaluable collection of papers that attempt to answer why Spielrein's story and work have remained in the dark for so long. The distinguished editors draw together Jung's hospital records of his treatment of Spielrein, commentaries on her relationship with Jung, extracts from Spielrein's diary, Jung's letters to Spielrein, and short theoretical pieces from her groundbreaking paper on the development of language "The origin of the child's words Papa and Mama", to shed new light on one of the first women psychoanalysts' life and work.

Illustrated by historical documents that have never before been published in English book form, Sabina Spielrein: Forgotten Pioneer of Psychoanalysis encourages and facilitates further historical research into, and development of the ideas we've inherited from Sabina Spielrein's treatment, writing and relationships. This book will be of great interest to psychoanalysts, analytical psychologists, psychotherapists, historians, students and all those interested in the history of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic ideas.

Table of Contents

Contents: Preface. Coline Covington, Introduction. Sabina Spielrein (With a Prologue by Jeanne Moll), Unedited Extracts from a Diary (1906/1907?). The Letters of C.G. Jung to Sabina Spielrein. Johannes Cremerius, Foreword to Carotenuto's Tagebuch einer heimlichen Symmetrie. Burghölzli hospital records of Sabina Spielrein. Bernard Minder, Sabina Spielrein. Jung's patient at the Burghölzli. Bernard Minder, A Document. Jung to Freud 1905: A Report on Sabina Spielrein. Angela Graf-Nold, The Zürich School of Psychiatry in Theory and Practice. Sabina Spielrein's treatment at the Burghölzli Clinic in Zürich. Coline Covington, Comments on the 'Burghölzli Hospital records' of Sabina Spielrein. Zvi Lothane, Tender Love and Transference: Unpublished Letters of C.G. Jung and Sabina Spielrein (with an addendum/discussion). Sabine Richebächer, 'In League with the Devil, and Yet You Fear Fire?' Nicolle Kress-Rosen, Kindred Spirits. Sabina Spielrein, Psychoanalytic Studies: The Unconscious Phantasies in Kuprin's Duel, Animal Symbolism and a Boy's Phobia, The Mother-in-Law. Fernando Vidal, Sabina Spielrein, Jean Piaget - Going their own Ways. Barbara Wharton, Part I: Comment on Spielrein's paper. 'The origin of the child's words Papa and Mama'. Sabina Spielrein, Part II: Some Observations on the Different Stages in Language Development.