John Kerr's 1993 historical study of the relationships between Freud, Jung, and Sabina Spielrein — reconstructing from letters and documents the creation of psychoanalysis, the Jung-Freud rupture, and the role of Spielrein as both patient and intellectual contributor.
Provides the most detailed historical account of psychoanalysis's founding drama — the triangle of Freud, Jung, and Spielrein — demonstrating how personal, erotic, and intellectual factors were inseparably entangled in the creation of the therapeutic method they developed.
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