This costume was created in memory of a remarkable — yet often overlooked — figure in history.
Sabina Spielrein was one of the first women to work in the field of psychoanalysis in the early 20th century. Born in Russia, she was first admitted as a patient to the Burghölzli Clinic in Switzerland, where she met Carl Gustav Jung.

She later studied medicine in Zürich and went on to have a highly active and productive career.
As a woman working in the time of Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud, her contributions were largely ignored until the late 1980s.


Spielrein was a strong, intelligent woman, confined by the constraints of her era — yet she never stopped fighting for recognition and for the passion she had for her research.
This cocoon costume was created to express the strength and willpower that women in science need to have up till today. The strengt to brake out of the norms dominated by men.