According to her Zurich University medical school transcript (Swales, 1992), Spielrein matriculated on 17.4.1905 and on 27.4.1905 she submitted to the admissions office the required medical certificate:
27.IV.1905
Medical certificate
Miss Sabina Spielrein from Rostov-on-Don, residing in this Asylum and planning to matriculate for the summer semester at the Faculty of Medicine, is not mentally ill [i.e., psychotic]. She was admitted here for treatment of nervousness with hysterical symptoms. We have no reservation in recommending her for matriculation.
The Directorate:
Bleuler (Minder, 1994, pp. 118-119; my translation)

It is important to note that even though Bleuler endorsed Jungеs diagnosis of hysteria, three years later Jung (1908) would arbitrarily change it to hysterical psychosis while Carotenuto, going Jung one better, misdiagnosed Spielrein as a schizophrenic, both views no longer considered tenable. She was discharged on 1 June 1905 and moved to a pension in downtown Zurich.
Former inpatient and now enthusiastic freshman medical student Spielrein continues to describe in the Russian diary her trials and triumphs as she progresses in her medical studies and grows both emotionally and intellectually, as her friendship with Jung deepens: "The only thing I now possess is my freedom and I defend this ultimate prized possession of mine with all my strength. I cannot bear even the smallest judgment of my personality, and even when given in the form of a simple instruction it can turn into a stinging sermon ... it gets me into a rage. (I do not know why this happens.) I can take anything only from Junga. ... To-morrow I am going to the medical library and will borrow [Eduard von] Hartmannеs Philosophy of The Unconscious, which I accidentally saw in the catalog. Since I saw this book at Jungaеs, I believe it is worth reading" (W & W, Russian diary, entry of 8.6.05, pp. 178, 179).
In addition, Spielrein paints a moving portrait of her bond with Jung in a letter to her "mamochka" (term of endearment in Russian = mommy) of 26.8.05:
Dear mamochka,
I am now somewhat tired but completely at peace. I am deliriously happy
as never before in my life. At the same time it hurts and I would like to cry from happiness. You have probably guessed that the cause of all this is Junga. I visited him today. He comforted me about Remi [a woman patient at Burgholzli under Spielreinеs care]; in his opinion, he tells me, her condition has improved markedly and he advises me not to ask for the return of the money I had spent on her but to ask for it from the charitable society; on the other hand, the society could use this money to help another person, and so forth in this vein. We broached this subject after Junga told me that I should not be wearing a hat with holes in it and that I should also have my shoes mended. I replied that I had run out of money, but that I had already received so much that I could not ask my parents for more. Thereupon he compelled me to tell him what I had spent the money on. Then he made a proposal to make me a loan of 100 francs and write you about it. But as I objected vigorously, he forced me to accept 10 francs from him for the hat and the repair of the shoes. How do you like this tip? I was so ashamed I wished the earth should swallow me, but you cannot win an argument with this man. On the other hand, I was delighted that he had done a good deed and I did not want to hamper his efforts. Do not breathe a word to him about it. Strange how it is somehow pleasant to be an object of his charitable attentions and have him spend money on me. Naturally, I shall soon pay him this money back, but he does not know this as yet. So there, you can see what kind of a person he is, my Junga. When I left the Professor [Bleuler] today I felt like one condemned to die, but he [Jung] restored my faith in my abilities and made me so happy! He is coming to visit me on Friday (1st of September) at 3 oеclock. If only I could only learn to cook borscht before then! Today Jung and I went on rounds at our Hospital. There is number of women for whom I am an object of admiration! But sleep is getting the better of me, I am going to bed. I was so excited that I forgot to convey to him your apology about the gift you sent him; but did not forget to tell him how I scared you when I had presented you Remiеs letter to me as his letter and he said I should not have tortured you in this manner ... [misdated as 26.8.08 in W& W, p. 187; my translation].
Such is a maidenеs heart, or as Spielrein says, "the psychology of so-called modest girls, to which category I also belong" (Carotenuto, 1982, p. 4); and such is her transference onto Dr. Jung, who acted as medical school teacher, mentor, and guardian in loco parentis.
On 25 September 1905 Jung composed a "Report about Fraulein Spielrein to Professor Freud in Vienna, delivered to Frau Spielrein for possible use" (Minder, 1993, 1994). It ends with this conclusion: "In the course of her treatment the patient had the bad luck to fall in love with me. She continues to rave blatantly to her mother about this love and her secret spiteful glee in scaring her mother is not the least of her motives. Therefore the mother would like, if needed, to have her referred to another doctor, with which I naturally concur" (Lothane, 1996, p. 205, my italics). It seems that the main purpose of the report was to reassure Mrs. Spielrein, who had her own relationship with Jung. At any rate, the report never reached Freud but an idea was planted in both mother and daughter that would materialize in 1909 when Freud was consulted under very different circumstances.
On Spielreinеs own showing, her treatment with Jung ended with her discharge from the hospital in 1905, as she would state in her letter of 11 June 1909 to Freud: "Four and a half years ago Dr. Jung was my doctor, then he became my friend and finally my дpoet,е i.e., my beloved. Eventually he came to me and things went as they usually go with дpoetryе" (Carotenuto, 1982, p. 93). Like others influenced by Carotenuto, I at first also believed that дpoetryе was a euphemistic code-word for the "physical act of possession" (Carotenuto, 1982, p. 219), or sexual intercourse. If it ever occurred, which I doubt, it is implausible that it would have been consummated at Burgholzli. Even Gabbard and Lester (1995), who regard the Jung-Spielrein relationship as a boundary violation, as a "pervasively boundaryless relationship that characterized the years following the analysis" (p. 72; my italics), suggest that the "tempestuous love affair" occurred after the formal doctor-patient relationship was dissolved.

B. The deepening friendship (1906-1908)
It was Jung who created the impression that he both continued to treat Spielrein after her discharge from Burgholzli and combined this care with friendship. The correspondence between Freud and Jung started in 1906 and in his second letter (23 October 1906) Jung for the first time anonymously mentions Spielrein: "I am currently treating an hysteric with your method. Difficult case, a 20-year old Russian girl student, ill for 6 years" (JFL, p. 7). There are no details about place, frequency, and treatment issues, while the complaint that she is difficult is ambiguous: what are those difficulties now? None are hinted at in Spielreinеs diary entries either preceding or following this letter. Three years later, on 7 March 1909, Jung would mention Spielrein as a "a woman patient, whom years ago I pulled out of a very sticky neurosis with unstinting effort, [who] has violated my confidence and my friendship in the most mortifying way imaginable. She has kicked up a vile scandal solely because I denied myself the pleasure of giving her a child. I have always acted the gentleman towards her … I nevertheless donеt feel clean, and that is what hurts me the most because my intentions were always honourable. … Meanwhile I have learnt an unspeakable amount of marital wisdom, for until now I had a totally inadequate idea of my polygamous components despite all self-analysis" (FJL, p. 207; my italics). Note that Jung is speaking of Spielrein as a patient in the past who is now demanding to be given a child.
Jung admits two motives for continuing his unstinting efforts on behalf of his prized ex-patient, as stated in a letter of 4 June 1909: (1) "She was published in abbreviated form [in 1908] in my Amsterdam lecture of blessed memory"; (2) "Es war mein psychoanalytischer Schulfall sozusagen, weshalb ich ihr eine besondere Dankbarkeit und Affektion bewahrte" (Freud Jung Briefwechsel, FJB , 1974, p. 252) — "it was, so to speak, my psychoanalytic text-book case, wherefore I offered her my special gratitude and affection" (my italics; compare with FJL, p. 228: "She was, so to speak, my test case for which reason I remembered her with special gratitude and affection," omitting "psychoanalytic"). Moreover, Jung rationalized his self-sacrificing efforts on behalf of Spielrein: "Since I knew from experience that she would immediately relapse if I withdrew my support, I prolonged the relationship over the years and in the end found myself morally obliged, as it were, to devote a large measure of friendship to her, until I saw that an unintended wheel had started turning, whereupon I finally broke with her. … I need hardly to say that I have made a clean break. Like [Otto] Gross, she is a case of fight-the-father, which in the name of all thatеs wonderful I was trying to cure gratissime (!) with untold tons of patience, even abusing our friendship for that purpose. On top of that, naturally, an amiable complex had to throw an outsize monkey wrench into the works" (FJL, p. 229). True, Jung received no payment but Spielreinеs mother, on her visits to her daughter in Zurich, gave him a number of gifts, as described in the motherеs letter. But Jung made no clean break: he was mixing friendship with an ambiguous therapy without a fee. It is an ethical dilemma just as weighty as mixing ongoing therapy with a sexual relationship.
I previously misread the letters of Bleuler to Spielrein (Minder, 1994) as showing payments Spielrein made to Burgholzli in 1909 for outpatient therapy (Lothane, 1996, p. 207). In reality, these payments had nothing to do with therapy. Minder has confirmed (personal communication) that he too was mistaken when he wrote that Spielrein "remained Jungеs outpatient until 1909" (Minder, 1993, p. 114).
1906
In another letter to Jung , copied that year into her German diary, Spielrein is filled with gratitude because Jungеs letter, "as dumb as it sounds, made her feel 20,000 tons lighter"; she also expresses her admiration for Jungеs "colossal intelligence and character" and for his
lecture, which "was wonderfully beautiful (not only in the scientific but also in the ethical sense). There you were, able to create so much enthusiasm and feeling -- how is it possible? You are endowed with a wonderful potential energy and you could achieve much more than you actually do. -- If you could only know how ethically beautiful you were then (when you treated the patients with so much care and love)! ... I was completely transformed, soft and warm towards people. Even though I went home in a flood of tears, I was calm and strong in my decision -- one doesnеt need anything else, it all comes from poetry (my italics). ... I love you too much, and therefore perhaps I imagine something that is not there (or perhaps it is there?) (for example, that you despise me, that you do not want that I should stalk you, etc.). Each time that causes me emotional storms and self-torture. ... For this reason I wanted to leave Zurich for at least three years, but I have found no better university. ... What do you think? Should I try to leave you alone for three years? (German diary, 29.8.06, W&W, pp. 205--207; B & B, pp. 218--129; my translation)
This poetry, contrasted with the aforementioned dreary prose, is not yet of the nature of loving and sensuous, erotic, ecstatic exchanges that would occur in 1909 but to an adoring kind of love-cum-hero-worship for teacher and parent-surrogate by an inspired, highly intelligent, and highly idealizing young person. Even if one allows that it is nourished by an erotic current, no erotic crossing of boundaries is discernible here. In the same letter she also confesses to Jung that "lately my conscience has not been clean because for the whole time I had been in a state of mute despair and my head turned completely stupid from constant studying. I did nothing but create scandals and was chock-full with mischievous fantasies and played the wildest antisocial tricks (when one speaks of scandals, it feels as if there is a little animal in oneеs back on the left side). In the end I brought to the hospital a small syringe and a little KCN [potassium cyanide] and would spray anyone who spoke to me. The KCN was for effect only, because the syringe was filled with water" (W&W, p. 206). This description could have easily reminded Jung of the ways Spielrein had behaved during her hospitalization.
In two entries that follow, Spielrein avers that "she has never met a human being in whom intelligence (even if different from yours) is united with such a moral strength, character, and idealism" and, "since his [Jungеs] letters bring her so much joy, to keep writing her even if she does not answer," for his letters "from time to time stimulate the better part of her personality so that at a moment of weakness I can think of you and become stronger". Medical student Spielrein then launches into a lengthy disquisition on various philosophical concepts, including those of the philosopher Ernst Mach on sensations and the biologist August Weismann on the immortality of unicellular organisms.

1907
In a letter to Freud of 6 July Jung distorts Spielreinеs quoting a Russian poem by giving it a starkly salacious reading ("a hysterical patient told me a poem ... about a prisoner ... [who] opens the cage and lets his beloved bird fly out. ... She admits that actually her greatest wish is to have a child by me who would fulfill her unfulfillable wishes. For that purpose I would naturally have to let дthe bird outе first" (FJL, p. 72). It is not clear when Spielrein told the poem, but Jung speaks of her as still being his patient but without giving further details. However, Jung misses the young womanеs real deep maternal longing for a child, hers and his "Siegfried" child, and its transference nature. Neither does he let on that he is up to his neck in a complex friendship with his former inpatient.

1908
On 11.5.1908 Spielrein passed her preliminary medical school examinations and in August would leave to spend a long-awaited summer with her family in Rostov-on-Don. The German reissue of Carotenuto (1986, pp. 189--197) contains eleven letters and fragments from Jung to Spielrein written in 1908, published for the first time and excerpted here in my translation. In these letters Jung sets up various encounters with Spielrein (the last one on 22.VII.1908), signs as "your friend", and speaks of his feelings for her. On 20.VI.08: "How great would be my happiness to find in you a human being that is an "esprit fort", not given to sentimentality but whose essential and innermost vital core is her own freedom and independence" (p. 190). On 12.VIII.08: "Your letter made me happy and calm. I was somewhat worried by your long silence. … I must express my admiration for the great personality of your parents. … As per your letter, everything is good and lovely; I delight in your happiness. In this way your long-feared visit in Russia will be so much easier. My own mood swings like a volcano, now everything looks golden, now it looks grey. Your letter was like a ray of sun through the clouds" (pp. 191б192).
The following, hitherto unpublished letter from Jung, presented here for the first time, is unclearly dated: 27.VIII.1908 but bears a postal stamp of 19.8.1908. The date could not be 27.VII.08, because at that time Spielrein was still in Zurich. It is addressed to:
Fraulein
stud. med. Sabina Spielrein
pr. adr. Herrn N. Spielrein
Rostow o/Don
Russland
Russian postal stamp: Rostov Don 19.8.08
(place name illegible) 27 VIII 08.
Meine Liebe!
Ich habe soeben Ihren freundlichen Brief erhalten und daraus den Eindruck empfangen, dass es Ihnen in Rostow nicht ganz wohl ist. Ich begreife. Ich bin Ihnen fur Ihre lieben guten Worte dankbar. Ich bin jetzt wieder ganz ruhig. Die Ferien haben meine Nerven ganz beruhigt. Ich mache jeden Tag eine grosse Bergtour, meistens ganz allein. Das thut mir sehr gut. Die Complexe ordnen sich so allerichtig ein, dass man wieder klar sieht. Es kommt fur Sie immer ein grosses Plus von Freundschaft heraus und ein herzlicher Wunsch, dass Ihnen Ihr Leben gelingen moge mit einem Minimum von Unzweckmassigkeiten und den damit verbundenen Schmerzen. Verlieren Sie nie die Hoffnung, dass ein Werk, das mit Liebe gethan wird, zu einem guten Ende fuhrt. Ich kann Ihnen heute nur ganz kurz schreiben, da ich EBEN sehr mude von einer grossen Tour nach Hause gekommen bin. Schreiben Sie mir immer ins Burgholzli. Mit herzlicher Liebe Ihr J.
To miss medical student Sabina Spielrein care of Mr. N. Spielrein
My Dear One!
I have just received your friendly letter and got the impression that you are not entirely well in Rostov. I understand. I am grateful to you for your good and kind words. I am now quite calm again. The vacations have calmed my nerves considerably. Every day I take a long walk in the mountains, mostly all by myself. That does me a great deal of good. The complexes are getting all straightened out and one can see clearly again. You have come in for a great bonus of friendship along with the heartfelt wish that your life should be successful and with a minimum of goals that serve no purpose and the pain connected with them. Never lose the hope that work done with love will lead to a good end. I can only write a short letter today because I have JUST returned home very tired from a long walk. Please keep writing to me at the Burgholzli. With heartfelt love Your J[ung] (my translation).
In stark contrast to the aforementioned letter to Freud of 6 July 1907, the expression "work done with love" surely does not mean sexual love but a loving relationship of mutual respect, friendship, and sympathy, a message from one soul mate to another, a manifestation of psychological and spiritual connectedness. Jung is suffering emotionally and the strain is showing. He is also hinting to Spielrein that her dream of a life with him can never be fulfilled. Was Spielrein still in treatment with Jung or were they friends, ambiguously mixing sympathy and supportive therapy of sorts?
The undated Russian letter that follows, sent by Mme Spielrein from Rostov to her daughter, could have been written in 1908 after Jungеs letter of 27 August 1908, for it refers to the daughterеs departure and a letter from Jung to her:

Rostov, (?) 1.9.1908
Dear Sabinochka!
I cannot find peace after your departure and I do not know where to write. I was unable to rest for a moment, got busy cleaning the rooms so as not to have time to think about myself. At night I thought of you and him, and after having lost all hope of receiving any news, and when my suffering for you reached a climax, I suddenly received a letter addressed to you. I was so upset I could not read a word. I ask you a thousand times to forgive me for opening the letter, but I opened it because you would have let me read it anyway and I had to know what it held for you, because my entire mood depended on it. His letter calmed me down. It expresses deep friendship, lightly coloured by something else, which is quite natural. He often thought of you, of the cholera, of your soul. He is probably in the throes of a conflict and his counsel to you and to himself is not to let the feeling of love grow but to suppress it, though not to kill it completely. Have I got it right? He who is able to do it will be victorious, or else will be out in left field. I am sure he will be victorious. He writes that this is necessary for the sake of the loved ones, that is, his wife and children. And what about you? Perhaps I got it wrong? Anyway, I like the tone of his letter very much, especially the limits within which he places you and himself. It seems to me that it could not be any better. You have in him a person devoted to you, with a touch of love (more than that is not permitted and you have to remain content with that), a person for whom you have profound respect and appreciation, which you also have from him, and what more do you need? You should be happy because it is more than you had wished for. Had you wished to cause him to divorce his wife, then it would be a different matter, but if not, then you must not go any further. The important thing is to realize that he could be taken, but it is not worth it. You cannot have it better than the way it is. Do not torment yourself, suppress your feelings so that they do not make you suffer and continue meeting him as a friend. He also needs you, but he is not suffering, on the contrary, he is getting better. Please, please, do not tell him I opened the letter. As far as the jam is concerned, tell him that you brought along fruit for him but were unable to bring more. Rent a lavish apartment, invite him and write to me with all the details. You can talk to him about love but remain unyielding, you only stand to gain from it. For the time being, do not hide you feelings … (original provided by Idefilm, Stockholm; my translation).
The defining quality of their relationship at this time seems to be a mutually supportive friendship, tinged, as her mother correctly intuits, with erotic feelings and fantasies. This view is also expressed in a letter from Spielrein to Freud dated 13 June 1909 where she mentions in passing that she became aware of Jungеs liking for Freud “11/2 or 2 years ago, when there was still no question of a closer erotic relationship between us [i.e., herself and Jung] (Carotenuto, 1982, p. 100), i.e., a time going back to 1908, when the unpublished letter of Jung of 27 August 1908 was sent.
Let us now turn to the undated, unpublished Russian letter from Spielrein to her mother, sent from Zurich to Rostov. It probably dates from the end of 1908, for in it Spielrein cites a paper recently finished by Jung and listed in his letter of 27 November 1908: "My wife is about to be confined. ... The material for the first number [of Jahrbuch fur psychoanalytische und psychopathologische Forschungen] is now complete: ... 5) me: "The significance of the father in the destiny of the individual".(FJL, p.179). It is amazing how much Spielrein has grown since 1905:
Dear Mamochka,
I am unable to write because, anyway, it is impossible to communicate important matters in a letter. One would have to say so much. Unfortunately, Zurich is so far away from Rostov. I cannot send you his letters because it is too risky, and to tell all is too long and too tiring. Were I able to make a firm decision, I would be living in an enchanted kingdom; as it is, I get exhausted thinking and there is no point in it, because ducunt volentem Dei, nolentem trahunt which means, the gods guide the willing and grind the unwilling to dust [actually, in Seneca the Younger: ducunt volentem fata (= fates), nolentem trahunt]. Just recently Junga finished his paper that created such a stir, "Über die Rolle des Vaters im Schicksaale [sic] des Einzelnen", in which he shows that the choice of the future [love] object is determined in the first relations of the child with his parents. That I love him is as firmly determined as that he loves me. He is for me a father and I am a mother for him, or, more precisely, the woman who has acted as the first substitute for the mother (his mother came down with hysteria when he was two years old); and he became so attached to the [substitute] woman that when she was absent he saw her in hallucinations, etc, etc. Why he fell in love with his wife I do not know ... Let us say, his wife is "not completely" satisfactory, and now he has fallen in love with me, a hysteric; and I fell in love with a psychopath, and is it necessary to explain why? I have never seen my father as normal. His insane striving "to know himself" is best expressed in Jung for whom his scientific activity is more important than anything in this world ... An uneven dynamic character coupled with a highly developed sensibility, a need to suffer and to be compassionate дad magnumе [to the fullest]. You can do to him and get from him anything you want with love and tenderness. Twice in a row he became so emotional in my presence that tears just rolled down his face! If you could only hide in the next room and hear how concerned he is for me and my fate, you would be moved to tears yourself. Then he starts reproaching himself endlessly for his feelings, for example, that I am something sacred for him, that he is ready to beg for forgiveness, etc. I cannot quote the exact phrases for it is a bit sentimental, but you can well imagine everything. Remember how dear daddy was apologizing to you exactly in the same manner! It is unpleasant for me to quote all those self-reproaches he addressed to himself, because we are both either equally guilty or not guilty. Look, how many female patients have been to see him and, without fail, each one of them would fall in love with him but he could only act as a physician because he did not love in return! But you know how desperately he struggled with his feelings! What could one have done? He suffered through many nights thinking about me. We also considered the possibility of separating. But this solution was rejected as not feasible because we are both living in Zurich. ... He felt responsible for my fate, and howled as he pronounced these words ... he did not want to stand in the way of my happiness, ... and he had reasons to fear for my future (in case we separated). -- This conversation took place almost two weeks ago and we both felt literally tormented, unable to utter a word, etc. The heart to heart talk came to an end. Ducunt volentem Dei, nolentem trahunt. We stood in still, in the most tender poetry. ... Let tomorrow bring darkness and cold! Today I shall offer my heart to the sun! I shall be gay! I shall be young! I shall be happy, thatеs what I want! [the four last statements are grammatically masculine, as if they depicted Jungеs mood]. Then I get a post card and a letter in one day, that I should not be sad, and last Friday he came again. Poetry again, and as usual, will I ever in my life forgive him what he had concocted with me; he did not sleep the night, became exhausted; he cannot fight it any longer. -- But by the same token, I should also be saying: will he ever forgive me for what I have done to him! The difference is that I know that for him scientific activity is above all else in life and that he will be able to bear everything for the sake of science. ... The question is only how my intellect is going to relate to this whole story and the trouble is that the intellect does not know how to relate. I should not be writing about him and his family but about me. The question for me is whether to surrender with all my being to this violent vortex of life and to be happy while the sun is shining, or, when the gloom descends, to let the feeling become transferred to a child and science, i.e., the scientific activity that I love so much? Firstly, who knows how this story will end? "Unknown are the ways of the Lord". Anyway, todayеs youth looks at these matters differently and it is very possible that I will fall in love again and will have success, i.e., I will find myself a husband. -- But donеt you forget that this is still very far in the future and therefore, do not worry. So far we have remained at the level of poetry that is not dangerous, and we shall remain at that level, perhaps until the time I will become a doctor, unless circumstances will change.--
I am only writing to you now because I cannot feel happy without a motherеs blessing, that is, without you approving my actions and that you should delight as long as I am well. And afterwards? In the best of cases, we cannot say what will happen afterwards and where happiness is awaiting us. Consider the latest example. One of Jungеs patients, in her attempt to get over her love for him, took to the mountains and became infatuated and sexually involved with a young man. She is now with child and the man who seduced her turned out to be a most small-minded person and abandoned her forthwith. Now she cannot stand him and in desperation wanted to end her life, and would have done it, had Junga not saved her once again. ... (my translation from the Russian manuscript in Spielreinеs handwriting and italics).

Can we take this letter at face value or should we suspect that Spielrein is dissembling and hiding the "real truth" from mother? In this letter to mother дpoetryе suggests tender embraces and reveals a profile of a strong, principled woman, who in the three years since 1905 has become mature beyond her three-and-twenty years, insightful about herself and about her friend. She also suggests that she and Jung have not overstepped the boundaries of sympathy and tender love to consummate sex.
A heart-rending note is struck by Jung on 4.XII.08: "I regret a great deal and regret my weakness and curse fate that is menacing me. You will laugh when I tell you that lately I am constantly flooded with early childhood memories [Jungеs boldface] Will you forgive me that I am who I am? That I am thereby offending you and forgetting my duty as physician towards you? My misfortune is that I cannot live without the joy of stormy, ever-changing love in my life. Since the last scene I have completely lost my sense of security towards you.I need definite agreements so that I do not need to worry about your intentions. Otherwise my work will suffer, and that seems to me more important than the momentary problems and suffering in the present. Give me at this moment something back of the love and patience and unselfishness that I was able to give to you during the time of your illness. Now I am the sick one" (pp. 195б196). The roles were reversed: the former patient was requested to act as therapist.

C. The erotic-sensual relationship (1909б1910)
Neither do we know what did Spielrein do in 1909 that was so different as to make Jung feel so threatened that he decided to turn to Freud on 7 March 1909 with a report about her "vile scandal" (FJL, p. 207). But she did nothing different, as she describes a rather innocent encounter in the following unpublished fragment of a Russian letter to mother:
Dear Mamochka:
Truly miracles happen in this world. No more, no less, without intending to, I managed to hypnotize Junga. How did it happen? He came to me 5 minutes earlier than agreed upon. Knocks and I answer "Ja!" He enters and I am greatly embarrassed because I did not expect it was him and I stand there with my hair half-loose, comb in hand. He sat down on the couch and promised he would not look, even though I had known in advance that "not looking" to him means he covers is face with his hands and peepsthrough the spaces between the fingers. I had to make do with this situation. а I hurried to finish getting dressed, put a red shade over the lamp and walked over to him. We greeted each other [as if] after a long separation. Then, as always, he launched into long speeches about him not having slept all night thinking about me, him wanting me to be happy forever, etc. I tell him that such speeches are a disturbance right now, that I love him anyway, and if one day we have to part then that will be that, but now I am not thinking of anything and I am fine. The he kisses me and bawls. "Was ist?" and he immediately glows with happiness. I am a mother for him, he a father, for me, the best of all possible worlds! But the best of all, he had the idea to make me a new hairdo: he pulled the comb out of my hairdo and loosened my hair, whereupon he became jubilant that I looked like an Egyptian woman (!) (my translation).
The wheel started turning following an anonymous letter sent by Jungеs wife and another one by Spielreinеs mother to Jung, prompting Jung to send the latter his oft-cited arrogant letter (Carotenuto, 1980, pp. 93б94), perhaps in an attempt to forestall Spielreinеs revenge. As Minder suggests, it is noteworthy that on that same day, Jung "tendered his resignation from the [Burgholzli] Hospital, accompanied by a letter from Bleuler, on the grounds that дhe would like to devote himself more than before to scientific activity" (Minder, 1994, p. 125). Perhaps Jung feared Bleulerеs condemnation, had there been a "scandal".
In his reply two days later, on 9 March 1909, Freud says: "I too have bad news of the woman patient through whom you became acquainted with the neurotic ingratitude of the spurned. When Muthmann [a pro-Freud Swiss psychiatrist] came to see me, he spoke of a lady who had introduced herself to him as your mistress. To be slandered and scorched by the love with which we operate -- such are the perils of our trade, which we are certainly not going to abandon on that account" (FJL, p. 210). But that woman was not Spielrein!
Jung, in the meantime, continued to claim that Spielrein was "of course, systematically planning my seduction which I considered inopportune. Now she is seeking revenge. Lately she has been spreading a rumour that I shall soon get a divorce from my wife and marry a certain girl student, which has thrown not a few of my colleagues into a flutter. What she is now planning is unknown to me. Nothing good, I suspect, unless perhaps you are imposed upon to act as a go-between" (FJL, pp. 228-229). While falsely accusing Spielrein, Jung maintained a total denial of his own involvement and actions.
In a letter of 30 May 1909 Spielrein asked Freud to see her whereupon Freud entered the fray as a skillful negotiator. In a letter of 18 June 1909 he reassures his friend that he suggested to Spielrein a more appropriate, endopsychic resolution of the matter ("eine wurdigere, sozusagen endopsychische Erledigung der Sache", FJB, p. 259), where "endopsychic" suggests to Spielrein she had imagined something that did not really happen, stemming from her own inner turmoil and transference. The term endopsychic is nicely defined by Freud when he interprets superstitions and paranoid ideas as: "nothing but psychology projected into the external world, [i.e.] the obscure recognition (the endopsychic perception, as it were [added in 1907, Strachey]) of psychical factors and relations in the unconscious" (Freud, 1901, p. 258). Interestingly, in a footnote in the Dora Case (1905a, p. 100) Freud invokes "endopsychic resistance" to explain her forgetting of dreams, alongside "endopsychic perception" and "endopsychic defense". The next important use is in the Schreber Case where "endopsychic perceptions ... [are] the basis for the explanation of paranoia" (Freud, 1911, p. 79). But who was imagining what?
That year, Spielrein quotes in her diary one more unpublished letter to Freud (W&W, 1994), quite moving in content and tone. It is not clear whether it was eventually sent out. It is undated and addressed to "S. g. H. P." (possibly: "Sehr geehrter Herr Professor" = dear Professor Freud). She says it is "her long-promised last one ... after she had received 2 letters" from Freud i.e., it would fit between Freudеs second letter of 8.6.1909 and his third one of 24.6.1909, but this is far from certain. A few excerpts follow:
Why now? The first time you were beautifully represented in a dream. A few months ago I had to forgo the wish to write to you because in the dream you had female breasts, old as Prof. Forel and ugly, to boot. But you were enormously cunning. We came to you with the brother (Dr. Jung); you paid attention to the brother and none to me. I will admit that after I received your first two letters I was happy with my dream: it did not seem right judging by its nature. History remains silent about the third one.
Now comes todayеs dream. I am in the hospital and hear you and Dr. Jung talking in the next room. Should I leave, since you are about to come into the room where I am? No, I continue with my work, I might even be able to make fun of both of you in the end. You come in and I feel that you have this thought about me: "So this is the beauty he wanted to see on a par with my daughter?" I see myself in the mirror and feel ashamed because I do not find myself beautiful at all. I fear that you interpret every move of mine as having a sexual meaning. I feel dumb and do a few tricks. All I know is that Dr. Jung is very friendly towards me but not you. Soon you retire to the other room. I look at your face and see that it is young, handsome, and enormously likable. I feel sick, the heart and the throat are cramping up, I have to put a compress on my head; why wonеt he listen to me? Why does he think so poorly of me? ... You can see how a young person is working through your letters in the depth of her personality. Firstly, my dream tells me that your better personality is now visible on the outside (in this respect my unconscious never deceives me), and secondly, the dream shows me that I am not indifferent to what you think of me; in my excitement, I forgot that you do not know me at all, that instead of sending you evidence I merely stated that it was so. Naturally, you think it is all my fantasy and whatever goes with it! ...
You can show this letter to Dr. Jung ... but do not betray to him my little qualm: when he is sure that one believes in his honesty, then this becomes a mighty prop for the better part of his personality, especially given his proclivity to be so proud and so labile in his affects. ... I am in no way his enemy ... I see him as my oldest little baby upon whom I have bestowed so much effort that can now live independently; if I speak to you of him in this manner it is because you love him: when I decided to write to you I did not yet know that he had told you anything. You know that for a fact! ...
I agree fully with the theorem in "The significance of the father in the destiny of the individual". I am only surprised that a relatively short time ago Dr. Jung wanted to convince me that I could love anybody else exactly like him. I had to write him a long epistle (I still have it) to show that there is no accident here, that one loves similarities in the [love]-object, that therefore one first loves oneеs own family and then always discovers similarities in the beloved. Doesnеt it sound funny, that my mother wants to take my beloved from me for the third time? Before Dr. Jung I was infatuated with two men (I was not yet ripe for love). They both liked me a great deal, but since I was still a child, both the first and the second hero fell in love with my mother over head and ears (W&W, pp. 200--202; my translation).
Some commentators have previously viewed both Jungеs and Freudеs handling of the situation as less than honest (Bettelheim, in Carotenuto, 1982; Cremerius in Carotenuto, 1986; Lothane, 1987, 1996). But the new documents have paved the way for a new look at the FreudбJung letters that has led me to a different conclusion. Without being confrontational, in his letter of 7 July 1909 Freud even-handedly applies "endopsychic" qua transference not only to Spielrein but to Jung as well, implicitly characterizing Jungеs reaction to Spielreinеs transference as a reciprocal mirror transference of his own, now renamed countertransference:
Such experiences, though painful, are necessary and hard to avoid. ... I myself have never been taken in quite so badly, but I have come very close to it a number of times and had a narrow escape. ... But no lasting harm is done. They help us develop the thick skin we need and to dominate our "countertransference" which is after all a permanent problem for us; they teach us to displace our own affects to best advantage. They are a "blessing in disguise" (FJL, pp. 230--231).

Barron and Hoffer (1994) believe that the Spielrein episode inspired Freud to discover countertransference. Perhaps Freud was also thinking of the days as hypnotic-cathartic therapist and recalling an early experience of "the personal emotional relation between doctor and patient" he would revisit in 1925, when a patient he was treating with the hypnotic-cathartic method "woke up ... [and] threw her arms around my neck. ... I was modest enough not to attribute the event to my own irresistible personal attraction, and grasped the nature of the mysterious element that was at work behind hypnotism" (Freud, 1925, p. 27). Or was he thinking of Anna O.еs treatment by Breuer and Breuerеs ignorance of erotic transference and countertransference? Or the lessons he learnt from Dora (Freud, 1905a): "I did not succeed in mastering the transference in good time" (p. 118); "I was deaf to the first note of warning, thinking I have ample time before me ... the transference took me unawares" (p. 120); and finally, "I promised to forgive her for having deprived me of the satisfaction of affording her a far more radical cure for her troubles" (p. 122). Clearly, Freud had the benefit of age and of his greater clinical experience and once again, as in the triangle of Anna O., Breuer and himself, he was the detached and objective observer.
The interpretation worked and external events conspired favorably as well. On 21 June 1909 Jung was able to give Freud
the good news ... of my Spielrein affair. I took too black a view of things. ... she turned up at my house and had a very decent talk with me, during which it transpired that the rumour buzzing about me does not emanate from her at all. My ideas of reference, understandable enough in the circumstances, attributed the rumour to her. I wish to retract this forthwith. Furthermore, she has herself freed herself from the transference in the best and nicest way and has suffered no relapse (apart from a paroxysm of weeping after the separation). ... Although not succumbing to helpless remorse, I deplore the sins I have committed, for I am largely to blame ... naturally Eros was lurking in the background. Thus I imputed all the other wishes and hopes entirely to my patient without seeing the same thing in myself. .... Caught in my delusion that I was the victim of the sexual wiles of my patient. ... [and] in view of the fact that the patient had shortly before been my friend and enjoyed my full confidence, my action was a piece of knavery which I very reluctantly confess to you as my father. I would now like to ask you a great favour: would you please ... [tell] her that I had fully informed you of the matter, and especially of the letter to her parents [in Carotenuto 1982, pp. 96--97)] which is what I regret most. ... [Y]ou and she know of my "perfect honesty" [English in the original]. I ask your pardon many times for it was my stupidity that drew you into this imbroglio (FJL, pp. 236б237; my italics).

Jungеs admission of his own transference, his endopsychic "ideas of reference", exonerates both him and Spielrein. The conclusion is that it was not only Spielrein who was a victim of endopsychic perceptions, defenses, and projections, but Jung as well, and more so than the woman: he was the one who under the pressure of fear, guilt and shame fabricated the fiction that Spielrein had orchestrated a scandal. But he mixed Spielrein up with another woman: there was no scandal except in his own mind.
The real "scandal" started with the intervention of Spielreinеs mother, as the daughter sums it up in her diary on 11.9.1910, completely in keeping with Jungеs account of it:
We came to know each other, we became fond of each other without noticing it was happening; it was too late for flight; several times we sat in "silent embrace". Yes, it was a great deal! Then my mother intervened, conflict arose between her and him, then between him and me. I simply could not break with him under such circumstances. A few months later, when I was feeling stronger, I caught up with him after his lecture. At first he wanted to hurry away, because he thought I was his bitter enemy and perhaps feared a scandal. The foolish child. I reassured him, told him that I did not want "to start" anything with him, that I had come because he was very dear to me, because I wanted to see him as a fine, noble person and therefore wanted to confront him with his horrid behavior toward my mother and me. His manner changed at once; he showed deep repentance, talked about a malicious person who had been telling tales about us ... Well, we parted as best of friends (Carotenuto, 1982, pp. 11--12).
By 10 July 1909 Jung was once again able to report to Freud: "I want to thank you very much for your kind help in the Spielrein matter, which has now settled itself satisfactorily" (FJL, p. 240).
On 24 June 1909 Freud finally declared the case closed by making a gesture of reconciliation towards Spielrein that is both gallant and honorable:
I have today learned something from Dr. Jung himself about the subject of your proposed visit to me, and now see that I had divined some matters correctly but that I have construed others wrongly and to your disadvantage. I must ask your forgiveness on this latter count. However, the fact that I was wrong and that the lapse has to be blamed on the man and not the woman, as my young friend himself admits, satisfies my need to hold women in high regard. Please accept this expression of my entire sympathy for the dignified way in which you have resolved the conflict. Yours faithfully, Freud" (Carotenuto, 1982, pp. 114--115).

The record strongly suggests that in 1909 Spielrein and Jung had engaged in "poetry", Spielreinеs shorthand for sensual exchanges such as touching, holding, kissing, looking into each others eyes and swooning romantically. Was there a public scandal? No. Did Jung suffer any consequences? No. What Jung dreamt up as a scandal turned out to be no more than a tempest in a teapot. One further conclusion: Spielrein caused no trouble between Freud and Jung, for they broke up over doctrinal differences regarding the libido theory, fought in the arena of the Schreber Case (Lothane, 1997).
Interestingly, the “poetry” continued for quite some time even after the tempest subsided. We can believe Spielrein to be truthful in her diary entry dated 21 September 1909: “Friendship. Can it alter so suddenly? Mother says it is impossible for my friend and me to remain friends once we have given each other our love. A man cannot contain pure friendship in the long run. If I am nice to him he will want love”(Carotenuto, p. 6). Here love means sex, but apparently Spielrein has been heeding her motherеs admonitions all along. Only two days later, after she decides to “ask for [her] dissertation back from Prof. Bleuler and send it to [her] friend, ... a perfidy that tormented [her] constantly,” she writes in her diary: “The most important outcome of our discussion [about the dissertation] was that we both loved each other fervently again. ... Then he became more and more intense. At the end he pressed my hands to his heart several times and said this should mark the beginning of a new era. What could he have meant by that?” (Carotenuto, 1982, pp. 8-9).
Towards the end of 1909 Spielrein contemplated the idea of leaving Zurich and moving to Heidelberg, as seen in Bleulerеs letter of recommendation of 16.10.1909 typed on Burgholzli stationery, and reproduced in its entirety for the first time:
The undersigned certifies that for the past two months Fraulein Sabine [sic] Spielrein has worked as a medical clerk (roughly equivalent to the German “Famulus”) in this psychiatric hospital. She is somewhat nervous but has worked diligently. Otherwise I also know her to be a young woman of good reputation, highly intelligent and greatly interested in science, and I am therefore very pleased to recommend her matriculation at Heidelberg University. (Signed) Prof. Bleuler (my translation).
As she told her mother, the move was unthinkable; the resolution in Zurich was reached in due course.
1910
While working with Jung on her dissertation Spielrein writes in her diary on 11.9.1910: “My love for my friend overwhelmed me with a mad glow. At some moments I resisted violently, at others I let him kiss every one of my little fingers and clung to his lips, swooning with love. So this is I, usually the soul of pure, clear reason, allowing myself such fantasies” (Carotenuto, 1982, p. 11). These fantasies are a mix of “poetry” and recollections of what used to happen. But now her resolve is: “well, then, I shall try to become fond of someone else, if that is still possible. I want to be loved and respected by him, I want to unite my life with his ... It is not easy to give up the thought of the baby boy, my longed-for Siegfried, but what is to be done?” (p. 13).
One more poetry is described in an entry of 9.11.1910: “Yes, the stronger poetry probably occurred a week ago Tuesday. He said then that he loves me because of the remarkable parallelism in our thoughts; sometimes I can predict his thoughts to him; he told me that he loves me for my magnificent, proud character, but he also told me he would never marry me ... I felt like a mother who only wanted the best for him” (p. 33).
In December of that year Spielrein presented the written medical school examinations.
D. The epilogue (1911)
On 20 January Spielrein passed her examinations and on 9 February defended her doctoral dissertation (Swales, 1992, p. 16) which her instructor Jung published in the Jahrbuch that year, in the same volume that Freud published his essay on Schreber. On 11 October Frl. Dr. Spielrein began attending the meetings of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society (Nunberg & Federn, 1974) and on 27 October Freud wrote to the second woman member of the Vienna Society: “Dear Frau Doktor, As a woman you have the prerogative of observing things more accurately and of assessing emotions more closely than others. ... Our last evening [of 25 October, Nunberg & Federn, 1974, p. 293--298] was not exactly a glorious one. ... I fully appreciate your attitude and look confidently to the future. I have been doing that, after all, for many years and under much more difficult circumstances. I hope that you will feel quite at home in our circle. With cordial greetings, Freud” (Carotenuto, 1982, p. 115).
Spielrein proved herself to be a keen observer in two other areas. During a discussion at the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society (8 November 1911) on timelessness and the unconscious, she spoke of “the fact that a recent experience tends to be replaced by one from infancy” which she related to “the perversions (inversion, bisexuality), infantile theories of sex, and the regression to ideas of that sort in dementia praecox” and then invoked “дthe Mothers,е” from Goetheеs Faust, ideas congenial to Tausk (Nunberg & Federn, 1974, pp. 302-303). During the next meeting (15 November), after a presentation by Reik on death and sexuality, Spielrein said “that she has dealt with many of the problems discussed today in her paper дDestruction as the cause of Coming into Beingе” (Spielrein, 1912), while Stekel spoke of the “destructive instinct” (Nunberg and Federn, 1974, pp. 316--317). These ideas about the fusion of anaclisis, sexual instincts and aggressive instincts prefigure Freudеs future dual instinct theory, in which sexual and ego instincts are pitted against the death instinct, Freudеs synonym for aggressive drives in Beyond the Pleasure Principle, where Freud (1920, p. 55) acknowledges his indebtedness to Spielrein, this great psychoanalytic pioneer.
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I am deeply grateful to Mme and M. de Morsier of Geneva for their kind permission to publish the materials used in this article from which I was permitted to take notes in their gracious home in 1998. Spielreinеs personal link to Claparede was forged via his marriage to a woman of a background similar to Spielreinеs, the Jewish-Russian Helene Spir, daughter of philosopher A. A. Spir. Along with Piaget and de Saussure, Spielrein was a member of the Geneva Psychoanalytic Society founded in 1920, with Claparede as president (Spielrein,1922). Spielreinеs papers, stored in the home and office of Claparede, were after his death given by his widow and daughter to the late distinguished Genevan professor of neurology Dr. George de Morsier, who then beqeathed them on his son and daughter-in-law, Mme Helene de Morsier. The documents cited here thus come from the “Archives privees de feu le Professeur George de Morsier, Fonds Edouard Claparede.” I am also grateful for the help given to me by psychologist and historian Dr. Fernando Vidal of Geneva University, who first told me about the existence of the Willke & Wackenhut dissertation of 1993/1994, completed under Professor Wolfgang U. Eckart, chair of the Institute for the History of Medicine at Heidelberg University, who also provided me a copy of that dissertation. That dissertation contains unpublished materials not included in Carotenuto (1982, 1986). Portions of these materials were previously published in Brinkmann & Bose (1986) and Cifali (1983).

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