I am a registered psychotherapist in New Zealand. Likewise, I was not aware of Spielrein until seeing the movie (which, by the way, is 'A Dangerous Method' - as opposed to 'Mind'). However, the movie was disappointing. It focused somewhat gratituitously on the sexual relationship between Jung and Spielrein, missing her contribution to the ideas of both Freud and Jung. That she may have been the scouce of the importance of life and death instincts - whatever one thinks of that now - and of Klein's emphasis on the breast, and not having been acknowledged, is shocking. It was not, perhaps, that she was a woman - Anna Freud, Marie de Bonapart, Helene Deutsch, Melanie Klein all have their place. Perhaps her relationship with Jung was too difficult, so she had to be forgotten.
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I am a registered psychotherapist in New Zealand. Likewise, I was not aware of Spielrein until seeing the movie (which, by the way, is 'A Dangerous Method' - as opposed to 'Mind'). However, the movie was disappointing. It focused somewhat gratituitously on the sexual relationship between Jung and Spielrein, missing her contribution to the ideas of both Freud and Jung. That she may have been the scouce of the importance of life and death instincts - whatever one thinks of that now - and of Klein's emphasis on the breast, and not having been acknowledged, is shocking. It was not, perhaps, that she was a woman - Anna Freud, Marie de Bonapart, Helene Deutsch, Melanie Klein all have their place. Perhaps her relationship with Jung was too difficult, so she had to be forgotten.