A Dangerous Method (2011)
Dec. 30th, 2011 11:42A Dangerous Method. Dir. David Cronenberg, 2011.
It seems that everyone else I know went to see Sherlock Holmes two weeks ago. I went with![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
kuwdora and epershand and my roommate C (who read a lot of Freud in her political theory class this semester) to see A Dangerous Method instead. Short verdict: intelligent, sexy, excellent.
This is a very thought-provoking movie. I actually woke up the morning after I saw the movie thinking about it; I can't remember the last time that happened. The movie follows the intertwined relationship of Carl Gustav Jung (Michael Fassbender), Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen) and Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley), whose treatment by Jung using Freud's methods brings the two together. The movie traces the simultaneous progression of the relationships among them, as well as the course of Spielrein's journey from inarticulate psychological patient to practicing, influential psychoanalyst in her own right. The movie actually strongly implies that Freud's theory of the death drive versus the sex drive (thanatos and eros) was derived from Spielrein linking them together first.
( The age of losing our innocence )
It seems that everyone else I know went to see Sherlock Holmes two weeks ago. I went with
kuwdora and epershand and my roommate C (who read a lot of Freud in her political theory class this semester) to see A Dangerous Method instead. Short verdict: intelligent, sexy, excellent. This is a very thought-provoking movie. I actually woke up the morning after I saw the movie thinking about it; I can't remember the last time that happened. The movie follows the intertwined relationship of Carl Gustav Jung (Michael Fassbender), Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen) and Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley), whose treatment by Jung using Freud's methods brings the two together. The movie traces the simultaneous progression of the relationships among them, as well as the course of Spielrein's journey from inarticulate psychological patient to practicing, influential psychoanalyst in her own right. The movie actually strongly implies that Freud's theory of the death drive versus the sex drive (thanatos and eros) was derived from Spielrein linking them together first.
( The age of losing our innocence )
