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1032595353 pdf 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-Salom, 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 Erzsbet Farkas, who took strong political stances. In the third section, the biographies of lesser-known analysts like Ludwika Karpiska-Woyczyska, Nic Waal, Barbara Low, and Vilma Kovcs 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. Read more