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Sabina Spielrein is perhaps best known for her love affair with her doctor, Carl Gustav Jung. She met Jung when she was admitted to Burgh?lzli Clinic in Z?rich 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 Illustrated by historical documents that have never before been published in English book form, Sabina Spielrein: Forgotten Pioneer of Psychoanalysis encourages and facilitates further historical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.
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Sabina Spielrein
Sabina Spielrein Forgotten Pioneer of Psychoanalysis
Edited by
Coline Covington and Barbara Wharton
HOVE AND NEW YORK
First published 2003 by Brunner-Routledge 27 Church Road, Hove, East Sussex BN3 2FA Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Brunner-Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” Brunner-Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group Copyright © 2003 selection and editorial matter, Coline Covington and Barbara Wharton; individual chapters, the contributors Cover design by Sandra Heath All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publishing Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sabina Spielrein: forgotten pioneer of psychoanalysis/editors, Coline Covington, Barbara Wharton. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-58391-903-1 1. Spielrein, Sabina. 2. Women psychoanalysts—Europe—Biography. 3. Mentally ill women—Europe—Biography. 4. Jung, C.G. (Carl Gustav), 1875–1961—Relations with women. 5. Psychoanalysts—Europe— Correspondence. 6. Psychoanalysis—History. I. Covington, Coline, 1953— II. Wharton, Barbara. RC440.82.S66S23 2003 616.89′ 17′092–dc21 2003002575 ISBN 0-203-49920-4 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN 0-203-59360-X (Adobe eReader Format) ISBN 1-58391-903-1 (Print Edition)
Contents
Contributors Preface
vi viii
Acknowledgements
xi
Text acknowledgements
xii
1
Introduction COLINE COVINGTON
1
2
Unedited extracts from a diary SABINA SPIELREIN
15
3
The letters of C.G.Jung to Sabina Spielrein
33
4
Foreword to Carotenuto’s Tagebuch einer heiml