'The Power that Beautifies and Destroys': Sabina Spielrein and 'Destruction as a Cause of Coming into Being'
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 c...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2015
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Pastoral psychology
Year: 2015, Volume: 64, Issue: 2, Pages: 259-278 |
| IxTheo Classification: | TJ Modern history ZD Psychology |
| Further subjects: | B
Destruction as a Cause of Coming into Being
B C. G. Jung B Death instinct B Holocaust B A Dangerous Method B Archetype B Richard Wagner B Jewish B Resurrection B BLEULER, Eugen, 1857-1939 B Sabina Spielrein B Sigmund Freud B Psychoanalysis B Vienna Psychoanalytic Society B JUNG, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961 B Savior pattern B Eternal Life B History of psychoanalysis |
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| Summary: | 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. It is as if this early trauma in the history of psychoanalysis and analytic psychology created a dissociative erasure of Spielrein's story and her work. This article offers a look into Spielrein's own work as an analyst and theorist, with particular emphasis on her 1911 paper 'Destruction as a Cause of Coming into Being,' which she read shortly after her admission to Freud's circle-the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society-around the time of the 'great divorce' between Jung and Freud. Included here is a summary of the paper, situating it in Spielrein's biography, as well as a discussion of the reception of the paper in her own time and more recently. Spielrein's little-known works-including an early conceptualization of the so-called 'death instinct' later formulated by Freud-give evidence for Spielrein's rightful place as a pioneer of psychoanalysis. The article ends with an exploration of how Spielrein's fearless theoretical, religious, and mythological ideas enriched her creative work but at the same time may have blinded her to the deadly reality of the Holocaust, which cost Spielrein her life. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-6679 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Pastoral psychology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11089-014-0604-6 |