Composing with Spielrein:
Contemporary Applications of Sabina Spielrein's Work
International interdisciplinary conference
September 5-6, 2026
online
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Conference fee: £10
PROGRAM
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5TH
KEYNOTE PANEL 1 (1:00-3:00 PM)
Klara Naszkowska: Language is Mother: Sabina Spielrein, Hélène Cixous, and Luce Irigaray
Katalin Faluvégi: Multilingual Environment and Focusing on Children: Spielrein on Cognitive Development
Fatima Caropreso: Thinking without consciousness: Spielrein's Concept of Subliminal Thought
SEPARATION (3:00-4:30 PM)
Julie Reshe – Nonseparation: Before and Beneath the Self
Maria Beatriz Dominguez, Ana Maria Loffredo – Sabina Spielrein and the Feminine: Where the Body Becomes the Word
Wandi Chen – Lost Personal Object Relations and the Destroyed Ego Psyche: Separation, Adolescence, Melancholia
CHILDHOOD (4:45-6:30 PM)
Martina Bortington – Writing and Subliminal Psychic Life in the Russian Diaries of Sabina Spielrein
Rachel Bown: Masochism and sadism in the parental theatre of war and the Ghost of the Child In-between: the scene-en-abime
Kathy Sinsheimer – Spielrein Sheds Light on Problems of Modern Childhood
Adela Stoppel de Gueller: Sexual Curiosity and Gender Issues in Children in the 20th and 21st centuries
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 6TH
RELATIONALITY AND CREATIVITY (1:00-2:30 PM)
Fenneke Woertmann – The Art of Attunement: Composing Intersubjective Space in Therapy with Autistic Women
Stephani Stephens – Supporting a Client with a Not-So-Imaginary Friend
Sonja Voutilainen – Sabina Spielrein and the Growing Pains of Psychologist-Client Relations
ART, DESTRUCTION AND CREATION (2:45-4:15 PM)
Celine Hülsemann – Creation as a Cause of Remaining in Being
Salma Siddique – The Winning Move We Cannot See: Composing with Spielrein’s Dialectic of Destruction
Dominik Drexel – The Wish Personality: A Different Case for Spielrein’s Contribution to the Death Drive
HISTORIES (4:15-6:00 PM)
Alyksandra Ackermann – Examining Historical Erasure through the Lens of Sabina Spielrein
Catherine Humble – Sabina Spielrein in Geneva
Stephen Herceg – Sabina Spielrein’s of Destruction as the Cause of Becoming: A Contribution to Second Individuation
Irayetzin Hernández and Alejandra Uscanga-Castillo – The Influence of Sabina Spielrein on Sándor Ferenczi
KEYNOTE PANEL 2 (6:00-8:00 PM)
Renata Udler Cromberg: Compositions Between Spielrein, Winnicott and Ferenczi
Ana Tomčić: ‘The Individual is Dividual’: Sabina Spielrein and Psychoanalytic Individualism
Esther Rapoport: Becoming a Spielreinian: Incorporating Sabina Spielrein’s contributions into contemporary clinical practice