{"id":77439,"date":"2025-12-11T21:52:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/sabina-nikolaevna-spielrein-1885-1942\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T21:52:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:52:26","slug":"sabina-nikolaevna-spielrein-1885-1942","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/sabina-nikolaevna-spielrein-1885-1942\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabina Nikolaevna Spielrein (1885\u20131942)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian and Soviet psychoanalyst, pedologist. In the history of psychoanalysis, Sabine Spielrein remained as the author of the world-famous work &#8220;Destruction as the Cause of Becoming&#8221;, which became the foundation for all further studies of the death drive. Sabine Spielrein was a psychoanalyst of the famous psychologist Jean Piaget (see Piaget, Jean (1896-1980) in Chapter 5: Famous Scientists, Their Scientific Schools and Organizations in Psychological Science).<br \/>\nSpielrein&#8217;s key ideas:<br \/>\n 1) She contributed to the development of key ideas of analytical psychology: she owns the empirical substantiation of Jung&#8217;s theory of complexes (see Jung, Carl Gustav (1875-1961) in Chapter 5: Famous Scientists, Their Scientific Schools and Organizations in Psychological Science), Spielrein&#8217;s work influenced Jung&#8217;s ideas about the phylogenesis and ontogenesis of the psyche as a result of &#8220;complex accretion&#8221;.<br \/>\n2) She proposed an interpretation of the psychogenesis of schizophrenia as the process of replacing individual contents of the psyche with collective archaic contents.<br \/>\n3) She was the first to introduce the concept of the ancestral soul, which is an anticipation of the concept of the collective unconscious.<br \/>\n4) I studied various manifestations of the unconscious of children: I analyzed their dreams, sleep postures, speech and drawings.<br \/>\n5) She was one of the first psychoanalysts who studied the development of speech in young children and linked the development of speech with the development of thinking.      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian and Soviet psychoanalyst, pedologist. In the history of psychoanalysis, Sabine Spielrein remained as the author of the world-famous work &#8220;Destruction as the Cause of Becoming&#8221;, which became the foundation for all further studies of the death drive. Sabine Spielrein was a psychoanalyst of the famous psychologist Jean Piaget (see Piaget, Jean (1896-1980) in Chapter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[300],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5-1-distinguished-psychologists-and-their-contribution-to-the-development-of-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}