Sabina Spielrein

(1885-1904)

Daughter of merchant father and mother dentist, had three brothers and a sister who died. The death of her sister, done Sabine was sent by her parents to a mental hospital in Zurich in 1904, where he was diagnosed mentally hysteria. Her doctor was Carl Gustav Jung who psychoanalysts methods was applied successfully.

She attended medical school at the University of Zurich and in 1911 defended her thesis "about the psychological content of a case of schizophrenia"; of great importance as the first thesis in medicine in which this psychosis is designated in the terminology of Bleuler. She developed the ideas of Eros and Thanatos connection between the death instinct and the instinct of prolonged generation. Concepts retaken by Freud and that give rise to the theory of duality of the attractions, although at no time refers to Sabine.

In 1923, she left Germany where he had lived 23 years and returned to Russia where she lectured at the university and worked as a doctor. According to some records, it is known that 1942 Jewish civilians were killed in a mass grave, among which Sabina was with her two daughters.
Newspapers Sabina Spielrein, with dates of 1908 -1912, which were found 25 years ago in the basement of the Wilson Palace in Geneva (Switzerland), where formerly the Institute of Psychology stood show that had great relationship and influence on Jung and Freud.