Collected Psychoanalytic Works of Sabina Spielrein, Volume 2: Later Works from Lausanne, Geneva and Rostov-on-Don
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : July 2026
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 244
- Category :
Forthcoming - Category 2 :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 98535
- ISBN 13 : 9781041211235
- ISBN 10 : 1041211236
Also by Michael Gerard Plastow
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This is the second 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 second volume includes translations of Spielrein’s later work from Lausanne, Geneva, and Rostov-on-Don. The first volume features her early work from Zürich, Vienna, and Berlin. 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 cristical 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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Volume 2 of Collected Psychoanalytic Works of Sabina Spielrein edited and translated by Michael Gerard Plastow and Christiane Weller continues a critically sensitive curation of the works of Spielrein in a manner which allows her to find her voice as a seminal thinker and theorist within the history of psychoanalysis. Covering the period from her time in Lausanne (1915-1920) through to her return to Rostov-on-Don where she died at the hands of the SS in 1942, Plastow and Weller’s translation and commentary of these works quite remarkably facilitate the transmission of a knowledge hitherto obscured by the fascinated thrall which has been witnessed in the reading of her work in the context of Spielrein’s transference to Jung. Both the first and second volumes of Collected Psychoanalytic Works of Sabina Spielrein will be of paramount interest to psychoanalysts and students of psychoanalysis seriously engaged with the question of what psychoanalysis contributes to a transmission of thought which shakes free of the repetitive, to become creative.
David Pereira, Director of The Freudian School of Melbourne, School of Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Australia
Volume 2 of the Collected Psychoanalytic Works of Sabina Spielrein provides psychoanalysts and scholars of the history of psychoanalysis the opportunity to appreciate this analyst’s real contribution to the clinical reflection and theoretical developments in her later writings. Her work was rather poorly received in her time, and has continued to be unacknowledged, if not further obscured, following the discovery of the personal writings that Spielrein left in Switzerland upon her return to Russia. This reception was not unconnected to her nature as a nonconformist woman: rather than remaining dazzled by her transference to her analyst Jung as well as his own transference-resistance to her, her novel approach to psychoanalysis took up the very issues that remained obscure and problematic in Freud, and in conflict with the advances of his students, Jung first and foremost. Plastow and Weller’s observations regarding these mature texts, which concern Sabina Spielrein’s writing style—which these translators strive to respect—emphasise the “feminine” nature of the transition from her transference-love towards the analyst, to the transference of work. Her phrases, imperfectly articulated, at times left hanging, at times obscure, resemble the progression of discourse through free association: they aim to embrace a knowledge that imposes itself. This is not a knowledge that is already given, but rather to be discovered, to be approached in small touches without claiming to encompass it all.
Renata Miletto, psychoanalyst, Association lacanienne internationale, Italy
Table of Contents
Editors’ and Translators’ Introductory Remarks on the Translation (Volume 2)
1. Two Papers from Lausanne (1915-1920)
1.1. Introduction
1.2. Paper: An Unconscious Verdict
1.3. Paper: Expressions of the Oedipus Complex in Childhood
2. Five Communications from 1920
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Paper: Little Renata’s Theory of the Origin of Man
2.3. Paper: The Sense of Shame in Children
2.4. Paper: The Weak Woman
2.5. Paper: On Numbers and Arithmetic Problems that are Difficult to Remember
2.6. Paper: Repressed Oral Erotism
3. Three Short Clinical Papers in Geneva (1921-1923)
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Paper: A Brief Analysis of an Infantile Phobia
3.3. Paper: Postage Stamp Dream
3.4. Paper: An Observer-Type
4. Two Reports, Geneva (1921-1922)
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Paper: Russian Literature
4.3. Paper: Switzerland
5. Who is the Author of the Crime?
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Paper
6. The Emergence and Development of the Child’s Words Papa and Mama
6.1. Introduction
6.1. Paper: On the Question of the Emergence and Development of Spoken Language
6.2. Paper: On the Emergence of the Child’s Words Papa and Mama
7. Two Clinical Papers in French, Geneva 1923
7.1. Introduction
7.2. Paper: Dream and Vision of Shooting Stars
7.3. Paper: The Motor Car: Symbol of Male Potency
8. The Three Questions
8.1. Introduction
8.2. Paper
9. Some Analogies Between the Thought of the Child, that of the Aphasic, and that of Subconscious Thought
9.1. Introduction
9.2. Paper: The Thought Process of a Two-and-a-half-year-old Child
9.3. Paper: Some Analogies Between the Thought of the Child, that of the Aphasic, and that of Subconscious Thought
10. Time in the Subliminal Life of the Soul
10.1. Introduction
10.2. Paper: Psychological Considerations on the Problem of Time
10.3. Paper: Time in the Subliminal Life of the Soul
11. Some Short Notes on Childhood
11.1. Introduction
11.2. Paper
12. On Dr Skalkovsky’s Paper
12.1. Introduction
12.2. Paper
13. Children’s Drawing with Eyes Open and Closed
13.1. Introduction
13.2. Paper
Bibliography
Index
About the Author(s)
Michael Gerard Plastow is a psychoanalyst working in private practice in Melbourne. He is an analyst of the Freudian School of Melbourne School of Lacanian Psychoanalysis. He also practises in the public sector as a child psychiatrist at the Alfred Child and Youth Mental Health Service where he leads a multi-disciplinary team. Over a number of years he has convened a seminar on Psychoanalysis and the Child with Tine Nørregaard, also a psychoanalyst in The Freudian School of Melbourne. This collaboration has given rise to the writing of the book entitled What is a Child?: Childhood, Psychoanalysis, and Discourse.
Michael has published extensively in the psychoanalytic, psychiatric, and academic literature, and frequently presents his work at colloquia and conferences in Australia, Europe, and Latin America. He has a particular interest in the question of translation in psychoanalysis and has translated a number of papers into English from French, Spanish, and Portuguese. His translation into English of Jacques Lacan’s seminar The Knowledge of the Psychoanalyst was published in 2013 as a bilingual edition by the Association Lacanienne Internationale.
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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.
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