Sabina Spielrein's Siegfried and other myths facts versus fictions
- Sabina Spielrein's life events became known to posterity through a private correspondence with Freud and Jung, and through her diaries. Based on a misinterpretation of the documents, a myth, a fiction, was created about an alleged sexual affair with Jung and a case of misconduct during treatment. Another myth was that her relationship with Jung was a cause of the historic break-up between Freud and Jung. The biographical facts described by the author in a number of publications show that her treatment ended when she left the hospital to become Jung's student in the medical school, a situation with its own ethical rules. Furthermore, the alleged >scandal< was no public matter: it turned out to be no more than a personal quarrel. Before, during, and after that turbulent episode, Spielrein and Jung maintained a long and tender friendship and correspondence that included sharing creative ideas that enriched psychoanalysis. In these exchanges, a special role was played by the myth of Siegfried and other themes in Wagner's operas.
Metadaten| Author: | Henry Zvi Lothane |
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| Parent Title (English): | International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 24 (No. 1, 2016), pp. 40-49. |
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| Document Type: | Articles |
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| Language: | English |
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| Year of first Publication: | 2016 |
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| Release Date: | 2016/09/29 |
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| Format: | PDF-scan upon request / PDF-Scan auf Anfrage |
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| IdNo: | Lothane_H_Z_2016 |
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| Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive: | Articles / Artikel |
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| Licence (German): | on request / auf Anfrage |
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