Collected Psychoanalytic Works of Sabina Spielrein, Volume 1

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Early Works from Zürich, Vienna and Berlin

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Av Michael Gerard Plastow, Christiane Weller

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This is the first of two volumes of totally new English translations of all the known published psychoanalytic works of Sabina Spielrein, an important early proponent of psychoanalysis—and in particular of child psychoanalysis—who anticipated much of its later development.This volume includes translations of Spielrein’s early work from Zürich, Vienna, and Berlin. The second volume presents her later publications from Lausanne, Geneva, and Rostov-on-Don. This collection brings together all of Spielrein’s published writing in a consistent and clear style for an English-speaking audience. Dedicated to retaining the cadence and expression of Spielrein’s original writings, these translations convey the complexity and richness of her work, situating these texts in the times and places in which they were written. It includes a critical preface, as well as a critical and historical introduction to each chapter. The editors and translators also highlight significant terms and expressions, and provide critical and historical annotations throughout, allowing scholars to trace the development of Spielrein’s thought, in order to gain a fuller understanding of her work and contribution to psychoanalytic theory and practice.Essential for the serious study of Spielrein’s own theoretical elaboration, this book is for psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic psychotherapists, and scholars in related fields, as well as those interested in the writings of influential women.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-07-13
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor254
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781041213819

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Michael Gerard Plastow is a psychoanalyst of The Freudian School of Melbourne, School of Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Australia. He is the author of Sabina Spielrein and the Poetry of Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2019).Christiane Weller is Associate Professor in European Languages (German) at Monash University, Australia. She has published extensively on German literature and in the medical humanities (psychoanalytic theory, psychiatric art collections, psychosis and writing). She is a member of The Freudian School of Melbourne, School of Lacanian Psychoanalysis.

ForewordPrefaceAcknowledgementsEditors’ and Translators’ Introductory Remarks on the Translation (Volume 1)1. The Psychological Content of a Case of Schizophrenia (Dementia Praecox).1.1. Introduction1.2. Paper2. Destruction as Cause of Becoming2.1. Introduction2.2. Paper3. Contributions to the Knowledge of the Infantile Soul3.1. Introduction3.2. Paper4. Masturbation in Foot Symbolism4.1. Introduction4.2. Paper5. Dream of “Father Freudenreich”5.1. Introduction5.2. Paper6. Mother Love6.1. Introduction6.2. Paper: Mother Love6.3. Paper: The Unconscious Fantasy in “The Duel” by Kuprin7. The Mother-in-Law7.1. Introduction7.2. Paper8. Three Clinical Papers from Berlin, 19148.1. Introduction8.2. Two Menstrual Dreams8.3. Animal Symbolism and Phobia in a Boy8.4. The Forgotten NameBibliographyIndex

'With the publication of this first of two volumes, Michael Gerard Plastow and Christiane Weller reclaim the invaluable early writings of Sabina Spielrein from misrepresentation and reduction. By taking seriously the responsibilities of translation and the vicissitudes of the signifier as it acquires resonances and has effects in its circulation though different writers, by drawing out, as they put it, “the itinerary of particular words and terms that Spielrein uses throughout her texts”, Plastow and Weller attend closely to what Spielrein writes, a writing that is as relevant today as when she formulated her work in the first half of the twentieth century. The Collected Psychoanalytic Works of Sabina Spielrein provides essential access to material that should challenge any psychoanalytic practitioner very productively by allowing articulation of the difficulties, ambiguities and questions which occupy Spielrein in her writing and with which the psychoanalytic field should be concerned, if it is to follow its principles.'Barry O’Donnell, PhD, member of the Irish School for Lacanian Psychoanalysis.'The importance of Sabina Spielrein remains largely unknown, hidden behind some putative love affair with her analyst (Jung), and a supposed position between Freud and Jung. But her papers reveal her own struggle with the most seminal material: instincts or drives. Long before Freud, and before Jung, she understood the stakes of the death drive for the process of creation involving the unconscious (“Destruction as Cause of Becoming”, 1912). Surely, it remains one of the most paramount issues in psychoanalysis.In this first of two volumes of these Collected Psychoanalytic Works of Sabina Spielrein, Michael Gerard Plastow and Christiane Weller, the editors and translators, enable Spielrein’s struggle to emerge. They pay the greatest attention in allowing Sabina Spielrein’s singular style to be accurately transmitted as a truly psychoanalytic writing. With their critical introductions, these rigorous and scholarly translations make it possible to follow Spielrein’s own theoretical evolution throughout her work.Indispensable for the scholarly study of Spielrein’s opus by psychoanalysts, and other practitioners and scholars in cognate fields, as well as for the broader public interested in Spielrein’s work.'Christian Fierens, PhD, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst based in Tervuren, Belgium.'This first volume of the Collected Psychoanalytic Works of Sabina Spielrein is a pearl gifted to psychoanalysis at large. It dares to grant a long-overdue place to a thinker and clinician of remarkable talent, who has long been underestimated. It took a century to release her from her marginal status as an enfant terrible of the early days of psychoanalysis—the body of her work equally had to be kept at a safe distance. Her pioneering insights into destructiveness and the transformation drive, female sexuality and child analysis, were well ahead of her time. Her self-analysis and writing style remain volcanic, yet dangerously beautiful.'Bice Benvenuto, psychoanalyst, Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, UK.