Description
Each life story is unique, yet each also entwines with other stories, sharing recurring themes linked to issues of gender, Jewishness, women's education, politics, and migration.
The book's first section discusses relatively known analysts such as Sabina Spielrein, Lou Andreas-Salomé, and Beata Rank, remembered largely as someone's wife, lover, or muse; and the second part sheds light on women such as Margarethe Hilferding, Tatiana Rosenthal, and Erzsébet Farkas, who took strong political stances. In the third section, the biographies of lesser-known analysts like Ludwika Karpińska-Woyczyńska, Nic Waal, Barbara Low, and Vilma Kovács are discussed in the context of their importance for the early Freudian movement; and in the final section, the lives of Eugenia Sokolnicka, Sophie Morgenstern, Alberta Szalita, and Olga Wermer are examined in relation to migration and exile, trauma, loss, and memory.
With a clear focus upon the continued importance of these women for psychoanalytic theory and practice, as well as discussion that engages with pertinent issues such as gendered discrimination, inhumane immigration laws, and antisemitism, this book is an important reading for students, scholars, and practitioners of psychoanalysis, as well as those involved in gender and women's studies, and Jewish and Holocaust studies.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Progressives, in Their Day and in Ours Part One: Beyond Wife, Lover, Muse 1. Sabina Spielrein: Pioneer of Medical Science 2. Lou Andreas-Salomé: An Unacknowledged Psychoanalytic Theorist of Art 3. Beata 'Tola' Rank: Out from the Footnote Part Two: Beyond Psychoanalyst: Feminist, Marxist, Director of a Jewish Foster Home 4. Margarethe Hilferding: Women's Rights Activist Ahead of Her Time 5. What Do We Know about Tatiana Rosenthal? An Interview with Leon Kadis 6. Erzsébet Farkas: An Unknown Heroine and Her Wartime Mission in a Jewish Foster Home Part Three: Beyond the Homeland 7. Ludwika Karpińska-Woyczyńska: The Forgotten First Female Freudian 8. Nic Waal: Speaking in Tongues 9. Barbara Low: 'The little bit of pioneering' or the Beginnings of British Psychoanalysis 10. Vilma Kovács and the Community of the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis Part Four: Beyond the Holocaust 11. Eugenia Sokolnicka and Sophie Morgenstern: The Intertwining of Life, Work, and Death 12. Thinking Cure: Jewish Psychoanalyst Alberta Szalita, from Warsaw to New York 13. Olga Wermer: From Galician Archives to Memory and Postmemory
