Carotenuto, Aldo

New York. 1982. May 1982. Pantheon Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0394515307. Translated from the Italian by Arno Pomerans. John Shepley & Krishna Winston. 251 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Paul Gamarello. keywords: Psychology Jung Freud. FROM THE PUBLISHER - A biography of the relationship between C.G. Jung and Sabina Spielrein, a young Russian woman who was in love with him and was one of his first patients. Sabina Naftulovna Spielrein (born 1884, died August 12th 1942, both in Rostov-on-Don), was one of the first female psychoanalysts. She studied under Carl Gustav Jung, with whom she also had a romantic relationship. One of her more famous analysts was the Swiss developmental psychologist, Jean Piaget, who had also met Jung in Zurich in 1918-1919. Born 1885 into a family of a Jewish doctors in Rostov, Russia, her mother was a dentist, her father a physician. One of her brothers, Isaac Spielrein, was a Soviet psychologist, a pioneer of labor psychology. Sabina was married to Pavel Scheftel, a physician of Russian Jewish descent. Sabina's husband Pavel perished during Stalin's Great Terror, as did her brother Isaac. Sabina and her two children were probably killed by an SS Death Squad, Einsatzgruppe D in 1942 in Zmievskaya Balka. While Spielrein is not often given more than a footnote in the history of the development of psychoanalysis, her conception of the sexual drive as containing both an instinct of destruction and an instinct of transformation, presented to the Society in 1912, in fact anticipates both Freud's ‘death drive' and Jung's views on ‘transformation' (Bettelheim 1983). She may thus have inspired both men's most creative ideas. inventory #30256 ISBN: 0394515307.