In Chapter 3:
a. Why was Spielrein considered to be a ‘suitable candidate’ for Jung to apply Freud’s method
of therapy? p 48
During her treatment, Jung would accompany Spielrein on walks in
the park of the clinic, during which he provided daily therapeutic consul-
tations. It was Jung’s knowledge of her background, as well as her intel-
lectual and artistic aptitude, that may have led him to believe that she
would be a very suitable first candidate for applying the Freudian
method of psychoanalytic treatment. As Kerr points out, she was an
“hysteric, who was at once intelligent, well educated, and in the midst of
a classical delirium-all in all, the perfect sort of person on whom to try
out Freud’s newest ideas and methods”.
b. Was Spielrein responsible for the ‘split’ between Freud and Jung? pp. 50 - 51
No, there were sufficient professional and theoretical disagreements
between Jung and Freud to account for the breach between them, with-
out giving Spielrein a central role in the conflict.
c. Why did Freud believe Jung would be ‘the suitable’ person to carry Freud’s work forward?
pp 53 - 54
It was very important for Freud, as it was of great political importance
as well, that Jung was not Jewish. Freud hope that the Swiss, and Jung
specifically, would save his legacy.
d. Did Spielrein make a ‘declaration’ (公告) as to where her ‘allegiances’ （忠诚）lie? pp 55 -
56
Yes, she said, “Everyone knows that I declare myself an adherent to
the Freudian society and Jung cannot forgive me for this”. Allegiances
did not interfere with Spielrein’s ambitions.
In Chapter 4:
a. What is meant by ‘analytic boundaries’? pp 58 - 59
An historian of psychoanalysis named Covington has observed, the “
analytic boundaries [of the doctor-patient relationship]we are familiar
with today were virtually non-existent when Freud, Jung, stances of
training analyses that became erotic relationships…The blurring of the
boundaries between professional and sexual of familial was the rule and
not the exception”.
b. What did Freud say about the obligation(职责;义务) of the ‘intellectual elite(知识分子精英
)’? pp 60 - 61
The genius or intellectual elite must live in accordance with(符合) the
principle, the necessity, of sacrificing the baser instincts for finer, higher
purposes.
c. What is ‘abreaction(发泄;情感释放)’? p 63
Abreaction is the “ process of expressing long pent-up emotion about
a previously forgotten event…It was recognized by Freud to be an im-
portant therapeutic agent. If abreaction occurred, relief of symptoms al-
most always followed.
d. Which character traits did Freud attribute to Jung’s ‘defecation story’ report about Spielrein?
pp.64-65
The letter saying: It must be possible, by the symptoms and even by
the character, to recognize anal excitation as a motivation. Such people
often show typical combinations of character traits. They are extremely
neat, stingy, and obstinate, traits which are in a manner of speaking the
sublimation of anal eroticism.
e. What did Breuer say was the ‘most important’ thing that he and Freud discovered in 1895? pp
68 – 69
Transference phenomenon.
f. Freud felt badly about not ‘mastering’ exactly ‘what’ in the case of ‘Dora’? pp 69 – 71
He did not succeed in mastering the transference in good time.
g. How does Nasio conceptualize ‘hysteria’(癔病)? pp 72 – 73
For Nasio, hysteria is an “unhealthy bond linking the hysteric to an-
other person—-in particular, with regard to treatment, to that other who
is the psychoanalyst.
h. What did Nasio say about the ‘governing principle of analytic therapy?’ pp 73 -74
To treat hysteria, we have to create another hysteria artificially. The
psychoanalysis of any neurosis, when all is said and done, is just an arti-
ficial setting up of a hysterical neurosis and its final resolution. If, by the
end of analysis, we overcome this new, artificial neurosis—one that was
entirely created between patient and analyst—then at the same time we
shall have resolved the neurosis that initially brought the patient into
treatment.
In Chapter 5:
a. What did Janet say about ‘hysteria’? p 78
The influence of affects is seen most clearly in hysterical persons, and
that it produces a state of dissociation in which the will, attention, ability
to concentrate are paralyzed and the higher psychic phenomena are im-
paired in the interest of the lower; that is, theres is displacement towards
the automatic side, where everthing that was formerly under the control
of the will is now set free.
b. What did Bleuler say are the ‘three tools’ for treating patients? p. 80
Patience, calmness, and inner goodwill towards the patients.
c. What did Bettelheim say was the ‘most significant event’ in Spielrein’s life? p. 91
Whatever happened during her treatment by Jung at the Burghölzli, it
cured her…Whatever may be one’s moral evaluation of Jung’s behav-
iour toward Spielrein, his first psychoanalytic patient, one must not dis-
regard its most important consequence: he cured her from the disturb-
ance for which she had been entrusted to his care.
d. What is meant by: ‘in the history of psychoanalysis we look in vain(看起来徒劳无功) for
Spielrein’? p. 99
Spielrein made her mark in the fields of psychiatry and psychoanaly-
sis as a theoretician and practitioner. However, despite her contributions
to psychoanalysis—contributions acknowledged by both Jung and
Freud—she remained largely unknown. The lack of acknowledgement
of Spielrein in standard works on history of psychoanalysis is astonish-
ing…
