{"id":10337,"date":"2026-04-28T14:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T12:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torinoebraica.it\/evento\/freud-jung-sabina-spielrein-and-the-jewish-national-issue\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T14:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T12:36:11","slug":"freud-jung-sabina-spielrein-and-the-jewish-national-issue","status":"publish","type":"evento","link":"https:\/\/torinoebraica.it\/en\/evento\/freud-jung-sabina-spielrein-and-the-jewish-national-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Freud, Jung, Sabina Spielrein and the Jewish national issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

The final rift between Carl Gustav Jung and Sigmund Freud occurred in 1913. The theoretical disputes dividing the two psychoanalysts, bound by friendship as well as professional ties, were haunted by the delicate “racial question.”
\nFreud\u2014a staunch atheist and a harsh critic of all religions\u2014identified deeply with the Jewish tradition. However, he feared that psychoanalysis would be perceived as a “Jewish national concern,” and sought allies to give it scope beyond the confines of that community. This was also why he opened his heart to Jung, a non-Jew, who in 1910 became president of the International Psychoanalytic Association.
\nBut the “heir apparent” for the movement’s development brought with him a disturbing baggage of opinions on Judaism, the fruit of an unresolved issue in thought and culture: for him, the Jew belonged to a different psychology, a sign of a difference rooted in “race,” and his beliefs ended up fueling anti-Semitic prejudices and stereotypes.
\nThe clash with Freud was inevitable. “The fracture in the psychoanalytic movement,” writes David Meghnagi, “involved only a few dozen people. However, it became the mirror of a greater tragedy,” a climate of hatred that the rise of Nazism would bring to its extreme consequences.
\nAmid this fracture stands Sabina Spielrein, a bridge figure between the two masters: Jung’s patient and lover, she was later welcomed by Freud into the Viennese group. Her diary bears witness to an ambivalent experience, suspended between intellectual recognition and marginalization, between belonging to the movement and resistance to its paternalism.
\nIn the author’s account, through his correspondence with Jung and Freud, the voices of colleagues such as S\u00e1ndor Ferenczi, Karl Abraham, Ernest Jones, and above all Erich Neumann\u2014one of Jung’s most original students, whose anti-Semitic positions and initial moral collusion with Nazism\u2014take shape. A complex picture is thus reconstructed: not only the human conflict between two friends, but the profound cultural and intellectual contradictions of a Europe facing the abyss.
\nThe author, Prof. David Meghnagi<\/strong>, will be a guest in the Community. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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