Book ID: CBB308209508

Sex Versus Survival: The Life and Ideas of Sabina Spielrein (2017)

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Launer, John (Author)


Harry N. Abrams


Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 308 pp.
Language: English

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 least and most important stage in the rediscovery of an extraordinary life.

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Authors & Contributors
Colon, Matthew
Malinconico, Angelo
Escamilla, Michael
Angela Megan Sells
Boriaud, Jean-Yves
Dennis P. Slattery
Concepts
Psychology
Psychoanalysis
Biographies
Psychiatry
Unconscious (psychology)
Autobiographies
Time Periods
20th century
Renaissance
16th century
Places
United States
Switzerland
Russia
Italy
Europe
Austria
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