Unfulfilled wish of Sabina Spielrein

Forgotten follower of Sigmund Freud and the secret love of Carl Gustav Jung with her gift and beauty in early twentieth century, dazzled the minds of European …
Event took place in Vienna 1911th year. On one of the famous meeting on Wednesday that psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud was organizing, a girl of twenty-six years made a significant contribution to scientific research on the strong connection between Eros and Tanatos, relationship between two basic human drive, one which is showing the yearning to continue with life, to give the extension of life, and another which seeks to end life. That same year, already mentioned beautiful girl of dark, curly hair, became a member of Freud’s psychoanalyst society in Vienna. The name of the gifted and at first glance very peculiar scientists was – Sabina Spielrein.

In the history of psychology, particularly psychoanalysis, Sabina Spielrein, one of the pioneers of psychoanalysis, has for a long time been unjustly neglected. Her exciting life, above all, a tragic end, as if it is pointing us to think about things to which she dedicated her work to: the connection between the passion and death.

The case of young girl from Russia:

Interesting is the way how Sabina Spielrein stepped into the world of psychiatry and psychology. It happened in a direct way. She was nineteen years old when her father, Naum Spielrein from Rostov, a wealthy merchant of Jewish origin, brought his daughter in a mental hospital Burgercli in Switzerland. The girl’s mother, Eva Iubinskaia a dentist, agreed with her husband in order to try to cure a girl. Although she ended the high school in Rostov as the best student, to the parents, it was clear that the sensitive Sabina crossed the border of health and acted strange …
Just at this time in the Swiss hospital there was a young doctor named Carl Gustav Jung. Thirty years old still unknown doctor assigned to the case of Sabina Spielrein. After a lengthy review and discussion, he concluded that young Russian women suffers from a form of hysteria.

With the new procedure – the psycho – analysis – after eight months of psychotherapy, the patient healed. In letters about the progress and recovery of an unusual mental patient Jung thoroughly informed about all his teacher Sigmund Freud … In this way, Freud learned about the story of the young Jewish woman from Rostov. Although “her case was neither easy nor simple,” Sabina was discharged from hospital with the best prospects. She was ready for independent living. She decided herself to become a psychiatrist. In Zurich, the Faculty of Medicine, is the place where she started with her studies. She was an excellent student and no one was surprised when she said that her research field will be the human soul. In fact, she often spoke about her gift to read human minds … She publishes her research “Psychological content in the case of schizophrenia” …

Second Life
In 1912, when he reached the age of twenty-seven years, Sabina was married to a doctor, pediatrician Pavel Seftela. He also was a Russian Jew. Soon they had a daughter, Renata. It looked like an unusual marriage: Pavel the 1914th returned to Russia and Sabina’s with her daughter stayed in Europe. For a while she worked in Germany, then Lausanne, in Geneva at the Institute Jean-Jacques Rousseau. At that time she published a number of fruitful researches in the field of psychiatry and depth psychology.
She could become a famous psychoanalyst if she once again hadn’t change the course of her own life. Although after the October Revolution, the political situation in Russia was difficult, Sabina firmly decided in 1923rd to return to her homeland. The estate of her wealthy family was confiscated and they themselves are constantly under surveillance of the new communist government.
Leisurely could be said that she brought to Russia psychoanalysis: the Institute for Psychoanalysis opens the Department of Pediatric Psychology. She opens “The white kindergarten” whose aim was to raise healthy and free people. It is, however, after a short time, be closed as “suspicious.” It seems that Stalin himself under a false name, in this kindergarten sent his son, Vasil … Seeing that things are wrong with psychoanalysis in Moscow, Sabina returned to her husband in Rostov where he worked as a doctor and teaches at the university. In the meantime, she gave birth to another child, a daughter, Eve. Political conditions are becoming worse: 1936th the psychoanalysis in Stalin’s Soviet Union officially is banned. Isaac, Jan and Emily, Sabina’s brothers, disappear in the death camps and her husband 1938th dies of heart.
Old residents of Rostov still remember the tragic 11th August 1942nd year. Thousands and thousands of people were carried out on the streets of this city-on-Don. Between eighteen and twenty-seven thousand Jews and members of the Red Army, were executed by Nazis and buried in a common grave. Among them was Sabina Spielrein with her two daughters, Renata (22y.o.), excellent cellist, and Eva (16y.o.), which was to be the most glorious Soviet violinist …

It seemed that Sabina and her daughters unusually easy and bravely given up their lives. When the Germans took Rostov, 1941, Sabina refused to leave this city. She spoke very well about Germans that they are civilized people, and that they are not able to do evil. Soon Sabina become aware of – particularly as a psychoanalyst – that in certain circumstances and civilized people can inflict harm. However, she had refused to take the false passports prepared by a friend. It remains a secret why Sabina Spielrein refused similar assistance several times. As we can only drew as a conclusion is the call of Tanatos.

Forbidden love:
For some time wok and the personality of Sabina Spielrein was almost forgotten, especially in Russia. In the West her work was still remembered. And then the 1977th in the basement of Wilson castle, the former Institute of Psychology in Geneva, found parts of Sabina’s diary, and unknown correspondence with her teacher Carl Gustav Jung and Sigmund Freud (they corresponded from 1905th to 1923rd year). Letters have remained hidden for sixty years …
The light again came to the old and well covered love story between a doctor and a patient: Carl Gustav Jung and Sabina Spielrein. And at the time of treatment, during the first decade of the twentieth century, it was a rumor about Russian girl and the Swiss psychiatrist. Jung, who at the time was married, argued that the story about the alleged love has no strongholds in reality and that is only a reflection of patient illness. Indignant letters from his wife to Sabina’s mother in Russia (which warns Mrs. Spielrein how Jung is actually treating Sabine) that, however, deny Carl’s saying. And Freud’s concerned letters to Sabine in which he advised her to give up the obsessive love for Dr. Jung in an indirect way is referring to the fact that a passionate relationship still existed.

Take my soul!
In his writing to Freud, Jung described dream which persecuted his patient: to born a male child who will unite the Jewish and Aryan features, the son of Sigmund – Jung and her child. Freud congratulated her when she got married and gave birth to a daughter, believing that Sabina finally found salvation. Was it really a rescue or Sabina just pushed her pain? One of the stories on the illicit love of Carl Gustav Jung and Sabina Spielrein about their talking when he gave here a gift, a stone, saying goodbye to his soul in him and entrusted her to save her-the soul, as apparently the stone represented his soul. Sabina, became the guardian of Jung’s soul.
Anyway, about Sabrina started with speaking after the Italian psychoanalytic Aldo Caratenuto published the correspondences book titled “Secret Diary of symmetry”. And it is about Sabina Spielrein, the author of thirty scientific researches in German, French and Russian, couple of words about a girl who had the power of attraction, mind, and illness, and managed to attract Carl Gustav Jung. Once again the history made a great injustice to her as a woman and as a doctor.
Sabina came from Russia with her education and culture, and the strength of his personality, and great beauty, and dazzled the European minds. Unlike the others, Sabina decided to return to Russia.In Rostov, in Puskin street number 83, in front of the house where she and her family lived from 1887th to 1904th year, placed a memorial plaque. Many scientists and artists are trying to work through their own to get to see the secret of Freud and Jung’s disciples. A few years ago the Swedish director Elisabeth Marton recorded a film titled “My there was Sabina Spielrein”. Sabina is the main character of several plays and in the film, “Take my soul” Roberto Faenza.
Last wish of Sabina Spielrein, which unfortunately, was not fulfilled, which she had wrote in here diary was that she wanted her ashes to rests under the oak tree where they will write:
“My name was Sabina Spielrein. And I used to be a human being. “