This article presents a comparative study of five texts written by Sabina Spielrein, Jean Piaget and Lev S. Vygotsky on child language and thought. Spielrein was one of the first psychoanalysts who showed an interest in child language. She was Piaget's psychoanalyst in 1920. In 1923, she presented a paper at the Congress of Psychoanalysis in Berlin, also attended by Piaget. She returned to Russia in 1923 and became a member of the Russian Psychoanalytic Society, which had recently been created by Luria and of which Vygotsky was also a member. It appears that both Piaget and Vygotsky were influenced by her pioneering work, each of them in unique ways. Her work may therefore be the `missing link' between Piaget and Vygotsky, thus contributing to a better understanding of those epistemological issues involved in the authors' debates concerning child language, thought and socialization. Neither author has acknowledged his debt to Spielrein.
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