Carl Jung Movie: A Dangerous Method

[MysterionMuffles]

It's been a while since I made a recommendation, but I just remembered having a blast watching A Dangerous Method. It's a movie about Carl Jung's love affair with one of his patients turned colleague Sabina Spielrein. When he first takes her in to psychoanalyze her using Freud's methods, she is a disturbed young woman who is horribly traumatized to the point of experiencing PTSD over something as simple as Jung beating the dust off his jacket with a stick. In their sessions, Sabina confesses about how the first time her father spanked her, it excited her to the point of wetting her pants.

 

I don't know how much of it is true (basically Jung and Spielrein start partaking in some BDSM sex to manage her anxieties), but an interesting movie nonetheless that also highlights the relationship between Jung and Freud; both in the mentor-student paradigm, as well as friendly rivals.

[Existing Alternatives]

That movie really made me sick. Especially, the very beginning. So, this little girl was brought up in a household, where a father had a special “little room,” where he would beat his children. And the girl got wet because of the “excitement” of being beat at the age of… (I forgot what it was, but it was in single digits). Surprise, she now cannot function properly. But the most sickening part is that after learning all that and realising that it was her father who paid for the treatment, Jung does a quick calculation and proceeds with the normal course not even once recalling that perhaps her father did something wrong. Oh, and he also screws her while beating, re-enacting her early childhood trauma. I sure hope it’s made up.

[MysterionMuffles]

I sure hope that it's not. Because if it's made up, it's propaganda that self knowledge and delving into your history doesn't stop. But look it took her years to break it off with Jung even as she was becoming a respectable psychologist herself. I hope it is as close to the true story because that would mean it's a realistic depiction of how hard it really is to undo the chains of our history--that we may sometimes lapse into behaviours that were brought upon our histories.

[Existing Alternatives]

Unfortunately, you are right @Rainbow Jamz, it does not look like it was made up... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabina_Spielrein

[MysterionMuffles]

Dear God...yep. It always strikes me when high functional people still act out some of their childhood dysfunctions in their private time. You would think the success and meaingful work would replace that, but I guess not.