This is an excellent summary, more accurate than almost anything else available on the web. May I suggest it needs updating in the light of my recent biography of Spielrein., which is the first full length and researched one in English (see Jewish Book Council: http://goo.gl/GmcM9H. ) I have reassessed her relationship with Jung, placing it in the context of his other relationships, and arguing that it was briefer an more one-sided than usually depicted. I also give an account of her lifelong career and her attempts to link psychoanalysis and developmental psychology: she influenced not only Piaget but also the Russian psychologists Luria and Vygotsky. An increasing number of feminist therapists and others are moving the emphasis away from Spielrein as a sex object and a sideshow in men's lives, and claiming her status as a significant thinker who was marginalized for her resistance to joining factions, and her distinctively female view of psychology.
This is an excellent summary, more accurate than almost anything else available on the web. May I suggest it needs updating in the light of my recent biography of Spielrein., which is the first full length and researched one in English (see Jewish Book Council: http://goo.gl/GmcM9H. ) I have reassessed her relationship with Jung, placing it in the context of his other relationships, and arguing that it was briefer an more one-sided than usually depicted. I also give an account of her lifelong career and her attempts to link psychoanalysis and developmental psychology: she influenced not only Piaget but also the Russian psychologists Luria and Vygotsky. An increasing number of feminist therapists and others are moving the emphasis away from Spielrein as a sex object and a sideshow in men's lives, and claiming her status as a significant thinker who was marginalized for her resistance to joining factions, and her distinctively female view of psychology.