Sex versus survival
Subtitle: the life and ideas of Sabina Spielrein
By: John Launer
Publisher: Overlook Duckworth
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9781468310580; 9780715647417
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Psychoanalysts; Psychoanalysis; Biography; History
Other titles: Sex vs. survival
Description: Who was Sabina Spielrein? She is probably best known for her notorious affair with Carl Jung, which was dramatized in the film A Dangerous Method, starring Keira Knightley. Yet her life story is much more compelling than just one famous relationship. Spielrein overcame family and psychological abuse to become a profoundly original thinker in her own right. Sex Versus Survival is the first biography to put her life and ideas at the center of the story and examine Spielrein's key role in the development of psychoanalysis. Drawing on fresh research into Spielrein's diaries, papers, and correspondence, John Launer shows how Spielrein's overlooked ideas--rejected by Freud and Jung but substantially vindicated by later developments in psychology and evolutionary biology--may represent the last and most important stage in the rediscovery of an extraordinary life.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-295) and index.
Table of contents: title: Childhood 1885-1904; title: Asylum 1904-1905; title: Treatment 1904-1905; title: Medical student 1905; title: Man's talk 1906-1907; title: Woman's talk 1907-1908; title: Poetry 1908; title: Crisis 1909; title: Free associations 1909; title: Reconciliation 1909-1910; title: Separation 1910-1911; title: Munich 1911; title: Sex versus survival 1911; title: Aftermath 1912; title: Berlin 1912-1914; title: Switzerland again 1914-1919; title: Your best pupil 1917-1919; title: Geneva 1920-1923; title: From Geneva to Moscow 1922-1923; title: Moscow 1923-1925; title: Back in Rostov 1925-1942; title: Deaths 1942; title: Legacy.