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Yet I had no idea that Spielrein’s analyst, Carl Gustav Jung, had deflowered her when she was one of his hospitalized patients and most needed his help. This “affair”—this crime—was ...
- Early Life
- Career
- Relationship with Carl Jung
- Spielrein, Jung and Freud
- Contributions to Psychology
- Spielrein in The Arts
Sabina Spielrein was born in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, on November 7, 1885, into a wealthy Jewish family. Her father, Naphtul Arkadjevitch Spielrein, was a successful businessman and her mother, Emilia (Eva) Marcovna Lujublinskaja, was a dentist. Her maternal grandfather and great-grandfather were rabbis who arranged Emilia's marriage to her Jewish hu...
Spielrein became Jung's laboratory assistant and later entered medical school where she studied psychiatry at Jung's suggestion. In 1911, Spielrein graduated from medical school and began her own psychoanalytic practice. Spielrein moved to Vienna, Austria, in 1911 and joined the Vienna Psychoanalytic Association. In 1912, she married a Russian phys...
Today, many believe that Spielrein and Jung also became romantically involved, although the extent of the relationship has been debated. These suggestions are based on the letters discovered in the 1970s exchanged between the Spielrein and Jung, as well as Spielrein's own journal entries. Letters between Spielrein and Jung indicate intense emotiona...
Spielrein was evidently the reason Jung initially reached out to Sigmund Freud. Jung had learned about Freud's techniques and in 1906 he wrote a letter to the famous psychoanalyst to ask for advice about a challenging case involving a young Russian woman. Jung and Freud soon became friends and intellectual confidants and Jung frequently corresponde...
Through her relationship with Jung, Sabina Spielrein had a direct effect on the development of psychoanalysis, as well as the growth of Jung's own ideas and techniques. However, it would be wrong to suggest that this was Spielrein's only contribution to psychology. She was the first person to introduce the idea of the death instincts, a concept tha...
Spielrein has recently become the subject of books, films, and plays, including: 1. A Secret Symmetry: Sabina Spielrein Between Freud and Jung, a 1982 book by Aldo Carotenuto 2. A Most Dangerous Method, a 1993 book by John Kerr 3. Sabina, a 1998 play by Snoo Wilson 4. Ich hieß Sabina Spielrein (My Name was Sabina Spielrein), a documentary made in 2...
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In her diary entry on 11 September 1910 Spielrein writes of Jung: “My love for my friend overwhelmed me with a mad glow. At some moments I resisted violently, at others I let him kiss every one of my little fingers and clung to his lips, swooning with love…
Dec 30, 2019 · Before she became a pioneering psychoanalyst, she was Carl Jung’s patient. After experiencing a mental breakdown at age eighteen, she was admitted to the Burgholzli where Jung was the chief...
May 22, 2014 · Sabina Spielrein has mostly been known, if at all, as the patient with whom Carl Jung became romantically involved and who then turned to Freud for advice. While the boundary violation alarmed Freud and became the catalyst for his technical papers on transference, Spielrein’s own intellectual contributions have seldom been acknowledged.
- Pamela Cooper-White
- cooperwhitep@ctsnet.edu
- 2015
Apr 6, 2018 · Explores the life and work of psychoanalyst Sabina Spielrein through a feminist and mytho-poetic lens. Long stigmatized as Carl Jung’s hysterical mistress, Sabina Spielrein (1885–1942) was in fact a key figure in the history of psychoanalytic thought.
Jul 9, 2015 · The aim of this article is to give an accurate account of the relationship between Sabina Spielrein and Carl Gustav Jung, based on a close reading of the available documentary evidence. I challenge many of the commonly held assumptions about their relationship.
