{"id":504,"date":"2012-01-11T09:38:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T09:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=504"},"modified":"2012-01-11T09:38:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T09:38:00","slug":"a-dangerous-method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=504","title":{"rendered":"A Dangerous Method"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flame and I went to see <a href=\"http:\/\/adangerousmethod-themovie.com\/\">A Dangerous Method<\/a>, the Freud and Jung movie yesterday.  It&#8217;s quite good, but don&#8217;t go expecting to learn more about Freud, Jung, or their relationship.<\/p>\n<p>The movie turns on Jung&#8217;s relationship with Sabina Spielrein.  We see her therapy, her tangled relationship with Jung, bits from their BDSM affairs.  Everything except for the development of her ideas on psychotherapy.<\/p>\n<p>After all the movie time spent developing that, there&#8217;s precious left to explore Jung and Freud&#8217;s relationship, much less their ideas.  What emerges is a kind of false friendship, where Jung first uses Freud as a reluctant sounding-board and maintains the relationship of hollow lip service.<\/p>\n<p>The strongest character in the movie is Otto Gross, on screen about 20 minutes.  He philosophizes, seduces, psychoanalyzes, fucks, and leaves.  In his wake, we are told he had a lasting impact on Jung, but we have to take their word for it.<\/p>\n<p>For all that, the movie is well-constructed, intelligent, and engaging.  Go see it, but look elsewhere for the psychology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flame and I went to see A Dangerous Method, the Freud and Jung movie yesterday. It&#8217;s quite good, but don&#8217;t go expecting to learn more about Freud, Jung, or their relationship. The movie turns on Jung&#8217;s relationship with Sabina Spielrein. We see her therapy, her tangled relationship with Jung, bits from their BDSM affairs. Everything &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=504\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Dangerous Method<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}