Sabina (PART 2 OF 3)
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My name was Sabina Spielrein
ICH HEIß SABINA SPIELREIN
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■"Actual Catalogue Page"
In 1977 the diaries and letters of an unknown Russian woman were found in the cellar of the former Institute of Psychology in Geneva.
Among them was an extensive correspondence with two of the pioneers of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung.
These documents bear witness to an enduring search for the innermost secrets of the human psyche.
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Those diaries and letters reveal a love affair between the 29-year-old Carl Jung and his first patient, Sabina Spielrein, who was admitted in August 1904 to the Burghölzli mental hospital near Zürich, where Carl Jung worked at that time.
She remained there until June 1905.
Amazingly, she later enrolled as a student of medicine in Zürich, and Jung became her medical dissertation advisor.
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Director Elizabeth Marton dramatized this unique relationship based on those diaries and letters.
Letters and photographs are combined with dramatic re-enactments and dream-like imagery to offer a mesmerizing portrait of this amazing, interesting, and talented yet pathetic woman lost in a history.
It is a gripping, heart-wrenching and thought-provoking docudrama.
I see ... So, the above movie is sort of a documentary version of "A Dangerous Methiod," isn't it?
Yes, you're telling me, Diane.
So what's new?
Well ... I can see that Jung was almost happy with his own marriage as well. Do you know why?
Tell me, Kato.
Jung's wife Emma came from an old Swiss-German family of wealthy industrialists. This wealth later gave Jung the financial freedom to pursue his own work and interests.
Are you saying, Kato, Jung married her in 1903 for her money?
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No, I'm NOT, but Freud might have thought so, because in 1906, a variety of Carl Jung's unusual dreams were interpreted by Freud as portending the "failure of a marriage for money."
Quite interesting.
Like you said, both Jung and Sabina had a close working association, both were exploring the mind and its workings, so they had a lot in common to start.
You agree with me, don't you, Kato?
Yes, I do, but do you know, Diane, that Jung's wife Emma was a psychoanalyst before they married?
So what?
Well ... if sex and violence was an exciting secret and additional turnon for Jung and Sabina, so was for Jung and Emma, wasn't it?
I think Jung simply sought it outside their marriage during his close working association with Sabina.
Diane, do you know that sometime around the birth of her fifth and last child, in 1914, Jung began a relationship with a young patient, Toni Wolff. This affair lasted for some decades. Amazing, isn't it?
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How did Emma react?
It is said that Emma was bearing up nobly as her husband insisted that Toni Wolff become part of their household, saying that Wolff was "his other wife".
Really?
And the thing is, Wolff tried to persuade Carl Jung to divorce.
What happened?
Jung didn't buy the idea---probably because he prefered to retain the financial freedom.
So, Kato, are you saying that Jung was a womanizer?
Well ... if a man enjoys financial freedom, he tends to fool around with women.
In any case, which movie do you like better---"A Dangerous Method" or "My name was Sabina Spielrein"?
I like the latter better because the letters and photographs are combined with dramatic re-enactments and dream-like imagery to offer a mesmerizing portrait of Sabina Spielrein. It is more like a realistic yet poetic portrait.
... sounds good. I think I'll borrow the DVD from Joe Fortes Library.
Besides, the ending is quite thought-provoking.
Why is that?
Sabina thought that the invading german army wouldn't behave badly, but she was wrong. Sabina and her two children were murdered by a Nazi German SS Death Squad in August 1942 in Zmievskaya Balka ("the ravine of the snakes"), Rostov-on-Don, Russia.
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Sabina was murdered together with 27,000 other victims.
What a pity!
【Himiko's Monologue】
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Yes, indeed! What a pathetic ending!
The German Death Squad did aweful and horrible things as history witnessed.
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Battle Of Rostov 1942
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But Rostov is a beautiful city.
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Rostov - Cossack City
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I wish I could visit the city some day.
In any case, I'd like to meet my "Romeo"---a decent man in my future life.
How come I'm always a loner?
I wish I could meet a nice gentleman at the library in my town as Diane met Kato.
Well, they say, there is a way where there is a will.
I hope Kato will write another interesting article.
So please come back to see me.
Have a nice day!
Bye bye ...
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(To be followed)