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Sex versus survival, the life and ideas of Sabina Spielrein, John Launer

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Sex versus survival, the life and ideas of Sabina Spielrein, John Launer

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-295) and index

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individual biography

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Sex versus survival

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bibliography

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881094023

Responsibility statement

John Launer

Sub title

the life and ideas of Sabina Spielrein

Summary

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

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Sex vs. survival

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