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Film Night, April 18 2008 |
My Name was Sabina Spielrein
Friday, April 18, 7:30 pm
Parkdale United Church, Conference Room (Lower Level) A documentary film directed by Elisabeth Márton (2002)
The Movie is free but a freewill donation will be taken for room rental Based on documents discovered after World War II, this film tells the story of a young Russian woman, Sabina Spielrein, who led a troubled life and, at the age of eighteen years was referred to Dr. Carl G. Jung for counseling. In time, Spielrein was able to live on her own and resume her studies. In the analysis she fell in love with Jung. This movie portrays their analytic relationship in relation to her transference and his counter transference and how it was/was not dealt with at that time. Both Jung and later Spielrein consulted with Freud regarding their relationship. Spielrein became a member of the Viennese psychoanalytic circle in her own right and developed a theory of the death instinct, aspects of which were later incorporated in the works of both Jung and Freud. This film tells the story from the point of view of Sabina Spielrein and honors her contribution to psychoanalysis, something which has been neglected in the past. The movie is a German production with English subtitles. However, the movie is relaxed and slow moving so that the subtitles are not a distraction.
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