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In 1907, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung began what promised to be both a momentous collaboration and the deepest friendship of each man’s life. Six years later they were bitter antagonists, locked in a savage struggle that was as much personal and emotional as it was theoretical and professional. Between them stood a young woman named Sabina Spielrein, who had been both patient and lover to Jung and colleague and confidante to Freud before going on to become an innovative psychoanalyst herself. A solid new interpretation of the short-lived but oft-analyzed collaboration between Freud and Jung, in which the mysterious Sabina Spielrein figures prominently. Using Spielrein's correspondence and journals--discovered in the 1970's and first appearing in Aldo Carotenuto's A Secret Symmetry (1982)--Kerr traces a fascinating, credible web of influence and cross-fertilized ideas that he weaves skillfully into a record of psychoanalytic history.
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A Dangerous Method, John Kerr
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- Released
- 2012
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- Title
- A Dangerous Method
- Subtitle
- The Story of Jung, Freud and Sabina Spielrein
- Language
- English
- Authors
- John Kerr
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Released
- 2012
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 606
- ISBN10
- 0857891782
- ISBN13
- 9780857891785
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Historical Themes, True Stories, Biographies, History, Self-Help, Psychological Topics, Philosophical Topics, Philosophy, Science, Psychology, Friendship, Relationships, Partnerships, Adapted for Film, Psychoanalysis, Romantic Relationships, Sigmund Freud, Carl Gustav Jung, 1875-1961, Sabina Spielrein, 1885-1942
- First published
- 1993
- Original title
- A Most Dangerous Method. The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein
- Rating
- 3.65 out of 5
- Description
- In 1907, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung began what promised to be both a momentous collaboration and the deepest friendship of each man’s life. Six years later they were bitter antagonists, locked in a savage struggle that was as much personal and emotional as it was theoretical and professional. Between them stood a young woman named Sabina Spielrein, who had been both patient and lover to Jung and colleague and confidante to Freud before going on to become an innovative psychoanalyst herself. A solid new interpretation of the short-lived but oft-analyzed collaboration between Freud and Jung, in which the mysterious Sabina Spielrein figures prominently. Using Spielrein's correspondence and journals--discovered in the 1970's and first appearing in Aldo Carotenuto's A Secret Symmetry (1982)--Kerr traces a fascinating, credible web of influence and cross-fertilized ideas that he weaves skillfully into a record of psychoanalytic history.