NPAP – National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis
Continuing Education Committee invites
members, candidates and the wider analytic community
to a Visiting Scholar Evening
Dr. John Launer
Tavistock Clinic, London
Sabina Spielrein:
Sideshow & Sex Object or
Thinker of Original Genius?
Sunday, April 12, 2015, 6-8 pm
NPAP, 40 West 13th Street, New York
Ring 216 for entry
Handicapped accessible
Sabina Spielrein is best known as Carl Jung’s patient and mistress and for a minor role in his friendship and rift with Freud. For “Sex Versus Survival,” his groundbreaking new biography, Dr. Launer has used in-depth research into Spielrein’s letters, diaries and professional papers to show much of this familiar story — dramatized in the film “A Dangerous Method” — is a myth. In its place, Dr. Launer rediscovers a highly original thinker who was marginalized for trying to bring together Freudian and Jungian ideas, feminism, child development and biology. Recently published in Britain and the United States, “Sex Versus Survival” has encouraged a well-deserved re-evaluation of Spielrein’s legacy to psychoanalysis.
A physician, psychotherapist, educator and author, Dr. Launer is a senior Tavistock Clinic staff member and associate dean for postgraduate medical education at the University of London. For additional information: www.johnlauner.com.
No admission charge
Limited seating
RSVP info@npap.org or 212 924 7440
Refreshments follow Q&A
NPAP Continuing Education Committee
Alice Entin (Chair), Murray Gelman, Judy Ann Kaplan
Edith Laufer, Loveleen Pomsentier, Judith Rappaport
Penny Rosen, Claire Steinberger, Hanna Turken