A Dangerous Method
A Dangerous Method is a 2011 historical drama film. Set in the period from 1902 to the eve of World War I, the film follows the turbulent relationships between Carl Jung, founder of analytical psychology, Sigmund Freud, founder of the discipline of psychoanalysis, and Sabina Spielrein, initially Jung's patient and later a physician and one of the first female psychoanalysts.
- Written by Christopher Hampton, adapting his 2002 stage play The Talking Cure; itself based on the 1993 non-fiction book by John Kerr, A Most Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein. Directed by David Cronenberg.
Based on the true story of Jung, Freud and the patient who came between them. (taglines)
Jung
[edit]- Angels always speak German. It's traditional.
- [about military service] It's a complete waste of my time. Writing prescriptions for athlete's foot and examining cocks from morning till night.
- There must be more than one hinge into the universe.
- My love for you was the most important thing in my life. For better or worse, it made me understand who I am.
- Sometimes you have to do something unforgivable... just to be able to go on living.
Freud
[edit]- I think perhaps you should entertain the possibility that it represents the penis.
- How sweet it must be to die.
- Experiences like this, however painful, are necessary and inevitable; without them, how can we know life?
Others
[edit]- Gross: It seems to me the measure of the true perversity of the human race, that one of its very few reliably pleasurable activities should be the subject of so much hysteria and repression.
- Spielrein: Perhaps true sexuality demands the destruction of the ego.
Dialogue
[edit]- Doctor: I feel you may have a little too much time on your hands. I'm a great believer in getting our patients involved in some productive work. What are your particular interests?
- Spielrein: Suicide. Interplanetary travel.
- Jung: I can only tell you that she's rather disorganized, emotionally generous, and exceptionally idealistic.
- Freud: Well, perhaps it's a Russian thing.
- Freud: I have simply opened a door. It's for the young men like yourself to walk through it. I'm sure you have many more doors to open for us. Of course, there's the added difficulty, more ammunition for our enemies, that all of us here in Vienna, in our psychoanalytical circle, are Jews.
- Jung: I don't see what difference that makes.
- Freud: That, if I may say so, is an exquisitely Protestant remark.
- Spielrein: I somehow imagined you'd have found another admirer by now.
- Jung: No. You were the jewel of great price.
- Spielrein: When my father brought me to you I was very ill and my illness was sexual. It's clear that the subject I'm studying is entirely grounded in sexuality so naturally I'm becoming more and more acutely aware of the fact that I have no sexual experience.
- Jung: Law students are not normally expected to rob banks.
Taglines
[edit]- Based on the true story of Jung, Freud and the patient who came between them.
Cast
[edit]- Keira Knightley — Sabina Spielrein
- Viggo Mortensen — Sigmund Freud
- Michael Fassbender — Carl Jung
- Sarah Gadon — Emma Jung
- Vincent Cassel — Otto Gross
- André Hennicke — Eugen Bleuler
- Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey — Sándor Ferenczi
External links
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- A Dangerous Method quotes at the Internet Movie Database