Sabina SpielreinThe Essential Writings of Sabina Spielrein
Pioneer of Psychoanalysis
Herausgeber: Burt, Raymond; Cape, Ruth I.
Ruth I. Cape is Associate Professor of German at Austin College in Sherman, Texas. After doctoral studies in history, she received a doctoral degree in German from the University of California, Los Angeles. She has published several bilingual and annotated editions of historical documents. Raymond Burt is Professor of German at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He completed his doctoral work in German at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research and publications focus on fin-de-Siècle Vienna, in particular the writings of Friedrich S. Krauss, a controversial folklorist in the Freudian circle.
Preface
Introduction by John Launer
On the Psychological Content of a Case of Schizophrenia (Dementia Praecox)
(1911)
Introduction
Anamnesis (From the Medical History)
The Present State [Status Praesens]
I. "Catholicization"
II. "Psychological-Sistine Experiments"
III. "Histology and its Treatment"
IV. "The Industrial or Economic Question"
V. "Poetry of the Tropics and Water Symbolism"
VI. "Iron, Fire, War"
VII. "Poverty Complex and Garment Symbolism"
VIII. "Discourses from the Medical History"
IX. "Childhood Impressions, Transformation Ideas, Dreams"
Conclusion
Afterword by Adrienne E. Harris
Destruction as the Cause of Becoming (1912)
I. Biological Facts
II. Individual Psychological Observations
III. Life and Death in Mythology
Contributions to Understanding a Child¿s Mind (1913)
1. Analysis of a Girl
2. Analysis of a Boy
3. Analysis of a Boy
