Sabina Spielrein and the Poetry of Psychoanalysis: Writing and the End of Analysis - Paperback

by Michael Plastow (Author)

Sabina Spielrein has been mostly known for her relation with her analyst Carl Jung. Sabina Spielrein and the Poetry of Psychoanalysis seeks to re-address this distortion of her legacy by examining her original contribution to the field, such as her early analytical work with children.

Author Biography

Michael Gerard Plastow is a psychoanalyst (Analyst of the School, The Freudian School of Melbourne, School of Lacanian Psychoanalysis, and Analyst Member of the Association Lacanienne Internationale) practising in Melbourne, Australia. He is also a child and adolescent psychiatrist based at Alfred Child and Youth Mental Health Service. Michael convenes a seminar on The Child, the Adult, and the Subject of Psychoanalysis. He is the author of innumerable psychoanalytic papers, as well as the book What is a Child?: Childhood, Psychoanalysis, and Discourse, published by Karnac, London, 2015. His translation of Lacan's seminar The Knowledge of the Psychoanalyst appeared in 2013 as a bilingual edition in a non-commercial publication of É ditions de l'Association Lacanienne Internationale, Paris.