Sabina Spielrein:

Forgotten Pioneer of Psychoanalysis, Revised Edition

Coline Covington, Barbara Wharton, Coline Covington, Barbara Wharton

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781317458593
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Psychoanalysis
• Index: Psychology

Sabina Spielrein is perhaps best known for her love affair with her doctor, Carl Gustav Jung. Their intense therapeutic relationship led to a mutual fascination that lasted, for Spielrein, for the rest of her life. It is debatable whether Spielrein and Jung's relationship was consummated, but it did give birth to some of the most important ideas within psychoanalysis and analytical psychology today, the most notable being that of the death instinct. But what happened to Spielrein and why have her story and work remained in the dark for so many years?

This second edition of Sabina Spielrein: Forgotten Pioneer of Psychoanalysis complements the first edition by retaining many of the most important documents about her life and work. Included in this edition are Jung's hospital records of his treatment of Spielrein, Jung's letters to Spielrein following her discharge in 1905, extracts from her personal diary, and her ground breaking paper on the development of language, "The origin of the child's words Papa and Mama." New material includes Spielrein's famous paper, "Destruction as a cause of coming into being", in which she formulates her theory of the death drive, a paper describing her place and contribution within Freud's Vienna Circle, commentaries on the mutual erotic transference between Spielrein and Jung, and a theoretical discussion of her seminal ideas on aggression.

This new edition compiles the essential writings of Spielrein along with commentaries by prominent psychoanalytic and Jungian scholars. It is the definitive source book on Spielrein for clinicians, scholars and historians of psychoanalysis.

Coline Covington, Ph.D. is a training analyst of the Society of Analytical Psychology and the British Psychotherapy Foundation. She is former editor of the Journal of Analytical Psychology and former chair of the British Psychoanalytic Council. She is in private practice in London.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Contributors
• Preface to New Edition
• Preface
• Acknowledgement to Second Edition
• Text Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Unedited Extracts From a Diary (With a Prologue by Jeanne Moll)
• 3 The Letters of C.G. Jung to Sabina Spielrein
• 4 Burghölzli Hospital Records of Sabina Spielrein
• 5 The Zürich School of Psychiatry in Theory and Practice. Sabina Spielrein’s Treatment at the Burghölzli Clinic in Zürich
• 6 Comments on the Burghölzli Hospital Records of Sabina Spielrein
• 7 Tender Love and Transference: Unpublished Letters of C. G. Jung and Sabina Spielrein (With an Addendum/Discussion)
• 8 Some Historical Roots of Our Current Understanding of Transference and Symbolism
• 9 Jung and Spielrein’s Struggle With the Erotic Transference
• 10 Sabina Spielrein in Vienna, 1911–1912: Muse and Nemesis
• 11 Destruction as the Cause of Coming Into Being
• 12 Three Psychoanalytic Studies
• 13 Letter to Max Eitingon (With a Prologue by Barbara Wharton)
• 14 The Common Thread Among Abraham, Spielrein and Winnicott: On Oral Sadism and the Roots of Aggression
• 15 The Origin of the Child’s Words Papa and Mama. Some Observations on the Different Stages in Language Development
• 16 Comment on Spielrein’s Paper ‘The Origin of the Child’s Words Papa and Mama’
• Index