Abstract

CROMBERG, Renata Udler  and  CAROPRESO, Fátima. Psychoanalysis’s pioneering women: an archaeology. Ide (São Paulo) [online]. 2025, vol.47, n.80, pp.79-92.  Epub Feb 09, 2026. ISSN 0101-3106.  https://doi.org/10.5935/0101-3106.v47n80.08.

Throughout most of the history of psychoanalysis, the first women who entered this field and helped to establish it remained in the shadow of men and other women who, for institutional, personal, and political reasons, gained prominence in the history of this discipline. However, more recent historiography of psychoanalysis has progressively brought these women to light. In this article, we comment on the biography and some aspects of the thinking of four of them: Emma Eckstein, Hermine Hug-Hellmuth, Sabina Spielrein and Barbara Low.

Keywords : Psychoanalysis; archaeology; pioneering women; history.

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