Perhaps the political structure required loyal followers like Anna Freud and Melanie Klein. The issues that Sabina Spielrein faced in her life in the first quarter of the twentieth century are still with us although in different manifestations. Spielrein’s independence and her personality, which Jones found abrasive, may also account in part for her being forgotten. I choose to believe them, and not out of prudery, but because in those days people saw premarital sexual relations, especially as applies to Spielrein, differently than we do today; moreover, because unconsummated sexual desire was even more poignant and more romantic than consummated sex. In Sabina Spielrein, Angela M. Sells examines Spielrein’s life and work from a feminist and mytho-poetic perspective. He clarifies the meaning of love for in German there are different words and nuances that can mean a love like caritas. She was in succession the patient, then student, then colleague of Although Spielrein has been mainly remembered on account of her relationship with Jung, and has sometimes been the subject of lurid speculation, she is now increasingly recognized as an important and innovative thinker who was marginalized in history because of her unusual eclecticism, refusal to join factions, Following the sudden death of her only sister Emilia from Spielrein completed her medical school dissertation, supervised first by Bleuler then by Jung, on a close study of the language of a patient with While at medical school, Spielrein continued to assist Jung in the laboratory as she had done as an in-patient.
It was this sympathy and his contact with both Jung and Spielrein (unbeknownst to Spielrein) that suggest she was subject to the conventional male attitude towards women. He is also critical of Cremerius’s moral stance and judgment, which he sees as a denial of countertransferential feelings. Jung essentially concurs. Between themselves they refer to her condescendingly as a little girl. Covington and Wharton report that in 1942, when the German army retook Rostov-on-Don, she with her two daughters and other Jews were led to a gully where they were shot under Operation Barbarossa. Using the Spielrein-Jung experience this book shows the power of the analytic dyad for cure and anguish.Dahlberg, C. C. (1970). Boundary violations may be more aptly stated as a failure in coping with transference and countertransference feelings, especially the latter.
The editors and contributors see Spielrein in her complexity with her strengths and weaknesses. Sexual contact between patient and therapist, Harold B. Davis is a supervisor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and faculty and supervisor at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy. Both Freud and Jung are criticized for having failed to see her destructiveness. Spielrein was seeking such an unconditional acceptance. He states.
The publication in 1974, of the correspondence between Freud and Jung,In recent years, however, Spielrein has been increasingly recognized as a significant thinker in her own right, influencing not only Jung, Freud and Melanie Klein, but also later psychologists including Etkind's research in Russia in the 1990s showed that she did not "disappear" after leaving Western Europe, but continued as an active clinician and researcher.Lance Owens suggests that the importance of Spielrein's relationship with Jung should not be historically discounted, but seen as an additional part of her legacy and broad creative influence. And having taken that step, “our pure friendship would be destroyed by the intimate relationship....” Written shortly before her departure from Zürich, those words seemingly imply that whatever the nature of their physical "poetry", Jung and Spielrein had not engaged in sexual intercourse.Some commentators have seen Jung's conduct as a professional boundary violation, while others have seen it as an unintended and forgivable consequence of early experimentation with psychoanalytic techniques. Her tragic death in the Holocaust compounded this erasure. Today the analyst’s contribution to the transference is accepted and the reality of Jung’s feelings is noted by the contributors.