A Most Dangerous - and Revolutionary - Method: Sabina Spielrein, Carl Gustav Jung, Sigmund Freud, Otto Gross, and the Birth of Intersubjectivity

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gottfried M. Heuer
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Carl Gustav Jung ◽  
Sabina Spielrein

Schopenhauer and the Unconscious

2020 ◽  
pp. 496-516
Author(s):  
Stephan Atzert
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Arthur Schopenhauer ◽  
Death Drive ◽  
Central Idea ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Pleasure Principle ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Sabina Spielrein

This chapter explores the gradual emergence of the notion of the unconscious as it pertains to the tradition that runs from Arthur Schopenhauer via Eduard von Hartmann and Philipp Mainländer to Sabina Spielrein, C. G. Jung, and Sigmund Freud. A particular focus is put on the popularization of the term “unconscious” by von Hartmann and on the history of the death drive, which has Schopenhauer’s essay “Transcendent Speculation on the Apparent Deliberateness in the Fate of the Individual” as one of its precursors. In this essay, Schopenhauer develops speculatively the notion of a universal, intelligent, supraindividual unconscious—an unconscious with a purpose related to death. But the death drive also owes its origins to Schopenhauer’s “relative nothingness,” which Mainländer adopts into his philosophy as “absolute nothingness” resulting from the “will to death.” His philosophy emphasizes death as the goal of the world and its inhabitants. This central idea had a distinctive influence on the formation of the idea of the death drive, which features in Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle.

scholarly journals Emblematic Mechanisms and Psychoanalysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-29
Author(s):  
Oleksandr Markiian Soletskyy
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Scientific Thinking ◽  
Thinking Style ◽  
Conceptual Foundation ◽  
Cultural Experience ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Standard Unit ◽  
Carl Gustav Jung ◽  
Typical Experience

In the paper the parallels between the emblematic “mechanisms” of signification and the psychoanalytic theory of Sigmund Freud as well as Carl Gustav Jung have been studied. The Austrian psychiatrist has discovered template schemes that become a visual delineation, the blueprint for developing his scientific vocabulary, methodology, classification of psycho-emotional behavioral types in mythological plots. The Eros and Thanatos images handling, the exploitation of mythical tales about Oedipus and Electra, Prometheus, Narcissus, and many other ones to specify the behavioral complexes denote the presence of “emblematic methodology” in the formation of psychoanalytic conceptions and categories. His interpretations of famous mythological plots are boiled down to emblematic reduction. Carl Gustav Jung frequently selected symbolic notations as his research targets, which were a denotative space for expressing internal mental receptions and historic constellations of cultural axiology. In his writings we see the intention to assemble the concepts of image (iconic) and socio-cultural idea (conventional) into a sole compound that syncretically denote unity of meaning. Such an arrangement of iconic-conventional interdetermination is often significative elbowroom in Jung the decoding of which may allow to discern complex mental reflections. Notwithstanding the fact that he considers a symbol to be the standard unit of cognitive-cultural experience “conservation”, its functional semantics definition is fulfilled in emblematic patterns. This emblematic-cognitive form is not only a method of determining the initial images-ideas of the unconscious, “the mythological figures” of inner conflicts, typical experience of generations, but also the principle of justification and expression of his theory conceptual foundation. To a certain extent, it is an element of the Swiss psychologist’s scientific thinking style and language.  

scholarly journals Carl Jung’s relationship with Sabina Spielrein: a reassessment

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 179-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Launer
Keyword(s):  
Close Reading ◽  
Documentary Evidence ◽  
Documentary Analysis ◽  
Carl Gustav Jung ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Sabina Spielrein

The aim of this article is to give an accurate account of the relationship between Sabina Spielrein and Carl Gustav Jung, based on a close reading of the available documentary evidence. I challenge many of the commonly held assumptions about their relationship. These include the belief that Spielrein was Jung’s first analytic patient, that they had a long and mutually passionate affair, and that Spielrein was the inspiration behind Jung’s conception of the ‘anima’. I argue that there is little evidence for these and a number of other beliefs that have been passed down through successive cultural iterations without careful documentary analysis.

scholarly journals As hipóteses teóricas de Sabina Spielrein nas suas cartas a Carl Gustav Jung (1917-1918)

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fátima Caropreso
Keyword(s):  
Carl Gustav Jung ◽  
Sabina Spielrein

Resumo Tem havido um crescente reconhecimento da originalidade e do caráter pioneiro das propostas teóricas e clínicas da psicanalista russa Sabina Spielrein. No entanto, ainda são poucos os estudos dedicados especificamente à análise de sua teoria. Além de suas publicações, as cartas que Spielrein enviou a Jung entre 1917 e 1918 contêm ricas reflexões teóricas, que contribuem para uma melhor compreensão do seu pensamento e das hipóteses que ela viria a formular nos anos seguintes. Este artigo tem como objetivo analisar os conceitos de subconsciente e de simbolismo que Spielrein apresenta na correspondência com Jung do período mencionado. Procuramos mostrar que, com esses conceitos, a autora dá continuidade à teoria que começara a formular em suas primeiras publicações e tenta integrar suas próprias hipóteses a algumas ideias de Freud e Jung, o que tem como consequência a elaboração de uma teoria original sobre o psiquismo.

scholarly journals Psicologia e Religião

Sacrilegens ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Giraldo Hortegas ◽  
Rebecca Ferreira Lobo Andrade Maciel ◽  
Marcel Henrique Rodrigues ◽  
Valeria Wanda Da Silva Fonseca
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
William James ◽  
Wilhelm Wundt ◽  
Carl Gustav Jung

As ciências da religião possibilitam o intercâmbio interdisciplinar entre muitas áreas que se dedicam a investigar as variedades do fenômeno religioso. Desde o surgimento da psicologia moderna, esta disciplina interpreta as experiências religiosas em suas articulações entre psiquismo e cultura, contribuindo significativamente para o conhecimento científico da religião compreendida como uma dimensão fundamental do ser humano. Wilhelm Wundt, um dos fundadores da psicologia moderna, dedicou-se a esse tema em sua pesquisa sobre a psicologia dos povos. William James inaugurou o campo da psicologia da religião com a obra As variedades da experiência religiosa. Pierre Janet, no terreno da psicopatologia, buscou compreender o funcionamento psíquico da religiosidade em articulação com a loucura e a patologia. Sigmund Freud, fundador da psicanálise, formulou diversas hipóteses para interpretar as experiências religiosas em relação com a dinâmica inconsciente. Carl Gustav Jung, pai da psicologia analítica, dedicou dezenas de livros ao tema da religião. Inúmeros psicólogos e psicanalistas contribuíram para ampliar consideravelmente as possibilidades interpretativas inauguradas por esses e outros autores. No campo da psicologia social, abordagens como a teoria das representações sociais inaugurada por Serge Moscovici investigam as configurações contemporâneas das crenças e práticas religiosas. A proposta deste grupo de trabalho é possibilitar um espaço para que os pesquisadores compartilhem os resultados de seus estudos nas mais diversas áreas da psicologia, que proporciona metodologias e análises tão plurais, a fim de avançarmos na compreensão do fenômeno religioso na contemporaneidade.    

A Dark Trace

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herman Westerink
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Psychoanalytic Theory ◽  
Central Issue ◽  
Melanie Klein ◽  
Mental Life ◽  
Freudian Psychoanalysis ◽  
Individual Life ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Carl Gustav Jung

Sigmund Freud, in his search for the origins of the sense of guilt in individual life and culture, regularly speaks of “reading a dark trace”, thus referring to the Oedipus myth as a myth on the problem of human guilt. The sense of guilt is indeed a trace that leads deep into the individual’s mental life, into his childhood life, and into the prehistory of culture and religion. In this book this trace is followed and thus Freud’s thought on the sense of guilt as a central issue in his work is analyzed, from the earliest studies on the moral and “guilty” characters of the hysterics, via the later complex differentiations in the concept of the sense of guilt, unto the analyses of civilization’s discontents and Jewish sense of guilt. The sense of guilt is a key issue in Freudian psychoanalysis, not only in relation to other key concepts in psychoanalytic theory, but also in relation to debates with others, such as Carl Gustav Jung or Melanie Klein, Freud was engaged in.

‘I long to get together with all of you …’: A Letter from Sabina Spielrein-Scheftel (Rostov-on-Don) to Max Eitingon, 24 AUGUST 1927

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabine Richebächer
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Home Country ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Behavioural Science ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Run Up ◽  
First Time ◽  
Sabina Spielrein

Sabina Spielrein (1885–1942), Russian-Jewish pioneer of psychoanalysis, was highly esteemed by Sigmund Freud, and later by young left-wing analysts like Otto Fenichel, for being a creative thinker with a talent for stimulating new questions and original research (notably in ego psychology, child analysis, linguistics and neuropsychology). When she returned to her home country in 1923, however, her traces largely disappear. For this reason, the thirteen-page handwritten letter, which Spielrein wrote to Max Eitingon on 24 August 1927, in the run up to the tenth International Psychoanalytic Congress, is a particularly welcome discovery. She reports on professional and private matters, and above all we learn for the first time something about Spielrein's position in the disputes over the relation between psychoanalysis and Marxism in the Soviet Union. Spielrein's spirited engagement in the increasingly acrimonious debate over ‘Freudism’ and Marx-influenced behavioural science is sketched in the context of the development of Russian psychoanalysis, from its brief flowering under Trotsky's protection to its crushing under Stalin.

Psychoanalysis: From Degeneration to Regeneration

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Michel Rabaté
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Death Drive ◽  
Scientific Psychology ◽  
Health And Disease ◽  
Italo Svevo ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Sabina Spielrein

This article explores the relationship of decadence and psychoanalysis in the work of four major figures: Max Nordau, Sabina Spielrein, Georg Groddeck, and Italo Svevo. Sigmund Freud and Nordau agreed on the need to launch a scientific psychology but disagreed on the relative function of disease and health in culture, the latter famously explored in Nordau’s Entartung (Degeneration; 1892–1893). Spielrein’s “Destruction as the Cause of Becoming” (1912) influenced Freud’s concept of the “death drive” while also examining the “decadent” interaction between Wagner and Nietzsche. Spielrein’s thinking, along with Otto Gross’s, influenced Georg Groddeck, from whom Freud derived the concept of the id. Groddeck’s psychoanalytical novel Der Seelensucher (The soulseeker; 1921) anticipates Svevo’s Zeno’s Conscience (1923) and Regeneration (1928), a comic play that meditates on health and disease and gives a final twist to a psychoanalytically inflected rethinking of the uses and abuses of the concept of decadence.

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