Jung lust.

• Author: Sibilla, Nick
• Position: Briefly Noted - Carl Jung and a movie entitled 'A Dangerous Method' - Brief article

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In A Dangerous Method, David Cronenberg explores the origins of psychoanalysis by chronicling the personal lives of its founding figures, Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) and Siground Freud (Viggo Mortensen). Using the then-experimental "talking cure," Jung helps Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley) overcome her trauma.

Enticed by her and Otto Gross (Vincent Cassel), a coke-fueled anarchist psychologist, Jung falls into a torrid affair with Spielrein, jeopardizing his career. While the film has a kinky libido (Spielrein loves getting spanked), it excels, appropriately, in the talking, particularly between Freud and...