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''[[A Dangerous Method]]'' is a 2011 period drama directed by [[David Cronenberg]]. It concerns the beginning of [[Carl Jung]]'s ([[Michael Fassbender]]) career in psychoanalysis, told through his relationships with a patient, Sabina Spielrein ([[Keira Knightley]]), and his mentor, [[Sigmund Freud]] ([[Viggo Mortensen]]).
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Jung, an up-and-coming Swiss doctor, is working at a sanatorium when he begins to treat a Ms. Sabina Spielrein. Sabina, a Russian Jew, is hysterical, and Jung decides to try the "talking cure" being popularized by Freud in Vienna. The treatment proves successful, and Sabina returns to medical school, staying in contact with Jung. The two develop a romantic relationship, with Jung dissatisfied with his marriage to a young Swiss heiress. Their affair is intellectual (exploring Jung's fascination with memes and classic archetypes) and sexual (exploring Sabina's masochism in a consensual environment). Eventually, the guilt of his infidelity overwhelms Jung (as well as rumors revealing its existence to the public), and he ends the affair despite Sabina's vehement opposition. Eventually, the two reconcile and re-initiate their affair, but this time, Sabina breaks it off to go work in Vienna with Freud.
Meanwhile, Jung and Freud begin a correspondence. While impressed with Freud, Jung has reservations about his rigidly sexual approach to the human psyche. Freud brands Jung his successor and heir, reinforcing the paternalistic relationship. The two collaborate but continue to grow apart for a variety of reasons: Jung denies that all psychology is sexual and final, while Freud denounces Jung's interest in non-traditional venues of psychological study, which he calls "mystical nonsense." The two also chafe at their sociopolitical differences; Freud a Austrian Jew with little expendable income, and Jung a wealthy Swiss Protestant. This is all complicated by Jung's affair with Sabina; the young woman turns to Freud after their affair ends, and Jung feels betrayed, convinced she has chosen Freud's interpretation of psychoanalysis over his.
The film ends with Jung approaching a nervous breakdown, cut off by Freud and Sabina.
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* [[All Psychology Is Freudian]]: Played straight; even as Jung splits from Freud, his methodology is based in Freud's work.
* [[Big Applesauce]]: Jung and Freud visit America for a psychological conference, and the only shot is of their boat approaching Manhattan.
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* [[David Cronenberg]]: One of his most mainstream films, notably lacking the [[Body Horror]] and extreme violence of his other movies.
* [[Downer Ending]]: The ending explains how each of the protagonists died. Otto by starvation in Berlin in 1919, Freud being driven out of Austra by the Nazi's and dying of cancer, Sabina dying by excution by Nazi occupiers in World War II and Jung overcoming his nervous breakdown at World War I and dying peacefully in 1961, after becoming the "world's leading psychologist".
* [[Dreaming of Things to Come]]: Jung claims to have been experiencing bouts of ESP his entire life, and in one scene (set in 1914), describes a dream where [[World War
* [[The Edwardian Era]]
* [[Eternal Sexual Freedom]]: Subverted. While Jung's conversations with Otto Gross about monogamy are radical, they are treated as such.
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* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: Gross to Jung.
* {{spoiler|[[Heroic BSOD]]}}.
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* [[The Last Temptation]]: Subverted, in that Jung makes the plunge.
* [[Laughing Mad]]: Sabina, during the onset of hysteria.
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* [[Psycho Psychologist]]: Subverted with Sabina, played straight with Otto. When Sabina mentions her ambition to be a therapist, Jung approves, saying "We need insane doctors. Sane ones are so limited." Otto, on the other hand, sleeps with all of his patients and encourages suicide if he deems it an appropriate solution.
* [[Rule of Symbolism]]: take a look at Freud when he asks Jung about Sabina's virginity.
* [[Sex
* [[Sigmund Freud]]: The film plays up Freud's paternalistic and paranoid tendencies, portraying him as a sort of passive-aggressive antagonist.
* [[Single-Issue Psychology]]: Lampshaded. While Sabina's therapy reveals a sexual trauma is the root of her masochism, Jung criticizes Freud for being so obsessed with sex as the root of all human psychology.
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