Sabina Spielrein: The Woman and the Myth
Angela M. Sells
(Author)
Description
Gold Winner for Psychology, 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards 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.
Product Details
Price
$109.25
Publisher
State University of New York Press
Publish Date
August 01, 2017
Pages
296
Dimensions
6.1 X 1.0 X 9.1 inches | 1.25 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781438465791
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Angela M. Sells received her PhD in Mythology from the Pacifica Graduate Institute.