Early Women Psychoanalysts

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.

Autorentext

Klara Naszkowska, PhD, is a cultural historian focusing on Jewish women and exploring intersections of gender, ethnicity, politics, emigration, and memory. In 2019, she received a Fulbright Fellowship for a research project about Sabina Spielrein.

Inhalt

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 Karpi ska-Woyczy ska: 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