Gold Winner for Psychology, 2017
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Long stigmatized as Carl Jung’s hysterical mistress, Sabina Spielrein (1885–1942) was in fact a key figure in the history of psychoanalytic thought. Born into a Russian Jewish family, she was institutionalized at nineteen in Zurich and became Jung’s patient. Spielrein went on to earn a doctorate in psychiatry, practiced for over thirty years, and published numerous papers, until her untimely death in the Holocaust. She developed innovative theories of female sexuality, child development, mythic archetypes in the human unconscious, and the death instinct. In
Sabina Spielrein, Angela M. Sells examines Spielrein’s life and work from a feminist and mytho-poetic perspective. Drawing on newly translated diaries, papers, and correspondence with Jung and Sigmund Freud, Sells challenges the suppression of Spielrein’s ideas and shows her to be a significant thinker in her own right.
Зміст
List of Images
Introduction
1. Sabina Spielrein: A Life and Legacy Explored
2. Trauma, Transference, and Suppression: Sabina Spielrein and the Myth of Echo (and Narcissus)
3. An Affair Misremembered: Sabina Spielrein and the So-Called Love Cure
4. Writing as a Way of Coming into Being (Sabina Spielrein’s Diaries)
5. Sabina Spielrein in Academia: Destruction and Transformation
6. Sabina Spielrein’s Correspondence and Traps of the“Feminine”
7. Sabina Spielrein: Coming into Being
Afterword
Appendix A: Timeline for Sabina Spielrein as Reflected in
Sabina Spielrein: The Woman and the Myth with Select Bibliography
Appendix B: Contributions to the Knowledge of a Child’s Soul
Appendix C: Sabina Spielrein in Image and on the Page
Appendix D: Images of Myths Mentioned
Notes
Bibliography
Copyright Acknowledgments
Index
Про автора
Angela M. Sells received her Ph D in Mythology from the Pacifica Graduate Institute.