All geniuses are a little crazy

Sammy 2021-12-18 08:01:01


Before going to watch this film, I took a look at the film classification, this film was directly classified into the "story" file. As an adaptation of a biographical novel with a strong sense of realism, I just want to complain about Mr. Jung, your life biography can be so dramatic.

If you just talk about Jung, maybe not everyone is familiar with it, but when it comes to his colleagues, he must have a reputation. Freud, once a close friend and mentor of Jung, once called Jung "my son" and "the heir of my theory." The main line of this film is Jung and his female patient, and the female psychoanalyst Sabina, who became his student and lover, entangled the feelings for decades, and the side line is Jung and Freud. The intersection, conflict, and final rupture of each other.

Marx, Goethe, Freud-when talking about celebrities with IQ greater than 180 or even more than 200 in the nineteenth century, the names of these three celebrities appeared almost in a bundle, even if their true IQ values ​​were long gone and lost. Personally, it is a little suspicious that these three people's IQs were the best in Europe at the time. After all, as Zweig said later, it was "the time when the stars of mankind are shining", and that Marx has the brilliant "Das Kapital" masterpiece shaken. The building of the capital world and then set off a bloody storm or a prairie fire all over the world, and it is said that Goethe's "Young Werther" read countless innocent young literary and artistic girls across Europe to commit suicide generously. "Faust" made the non-mathematics scholar write a book and sigh "Stop it! This moment is so beautiful." But speaking of Freud... well, I admit that "The Analysis of Dreams" opened the door to psychoanalysis. , I also admit that interpreting dreams as subconscious expressions instead of God’s sudden desire to chat with the younger brothers and sisters created by him did make the humanism of the twentieth century flourish, but it would eliminate all mental illnesses. It is explained that the repressed sexual desire cannot be vented... Is this a kind of mental illness in itself, such as paranoia?

This kind of disapproval of the old Mr. Freud made me feel good about the apprentice who parted ways with him. Jung had a good impression on him when he came up. Jung directly questioned Freud in the film and in the correspondence between the two: " Why do all mental illnesses need to be explained by suppressed sexual desire?" It really goes deep into my heart. However, the root of my good impression of Jung was his tolerance and active exploration of Eastern metaphysics or "mysticism". This was true among most Western philosophers and scholars who believed in Eurocentrism at the time. Only a handful.

When Hegel evaluated Asia as “only polygamy is commendable”, and Kant simply classified people outside Europe as “without free will and therefore cannot be called a complete human being,” Jung maintained his understanding of all forms. Cultural interest. His works include "Answer to Job" on Western religious studies, as well as commentaries on "Tibetan Sutra of Death", and "Psychoanalysis Theory" expounded from the direction of scientific materialism. "The History and Psychology of a Natural Symbol" interpreted from the perspective of occult psychology. There are many "non-mainstream" cultural imprints in his theory. For example, he believes that there is a female character in every man's heart, and vice versa. This is the first time Sabina kissed him in the movie. In the dialogue with him with almost crazy but firm eyes, it was revealed:
"...This (pursuit) should generally be the man's initiative."
"You don't think that there are male parts in the female body, but in the male body. Will there be a female part too?"
"...I think...probably this is the case."

This theory was regarded as a pioneering cognition by later Western psychologists and philosophers, but, but... From the perspective of a Chinese, I really want to say that this is gossip. This is the yin and yang fish of gossip...there is yin in yin and yang and yin in yang and so on...Western scholars, you calm down, let's take one or two Take three deep breaths. One, two, three, read the Yijing together, let’s go gossip ~ gossip begets everything...

First, I will stun my national pride, which has begun to swell and run away, and come back to this film. Apart from the large amount of almost direct copying of the bridges and letters during the relationship between Freud and Jung in the film, I have to sincerely express doubts about the relationship between the content of the film and the title "Dangerous Method". After watching the entire film, the only thing I can't understand is how dangerous this method is. Isn't this method just psychoanalysis? Well, first of all, I do not understand the style. I really want to admit that anything mixed into love will become dangerous. After all, love is an uncontrolled passion, all kinds of destruction, and Jung’s feelings for Sabina are even more important. Strong, Sabina’s spiritual resonance with him, Sabina’s unrestrained and fierce feelings for him, and to a certain extent, he created the new Sabina’s Pygmalion-like complex that made him feel for Sabina. Na could not stop, knowing that it would damage her family’s reputation, she still had difficulty letting go, but blamed all of this on the method of psychoanalysis by psychological counseling... and also introduced another psychoanalyst to prove that "analyst who doesn’t love patients" It’s not a good analyst, and the analyst who isn’t Patient X is not a competent analyst"...Well, I’m going to find out the original work to see if this is part of the original work or the result of adaptation for the plot. .

But if, if the dangerous method is really just about love, or it is mixed with love therapy, then maybe this topic is not so difficult to understand. As a doctor who must stand in a position objectively maintaining a certain distance to analyze and treat patients, he has crossed that distance, and the patient who should be in the analyzed position invades the doctor’s world, and even analyzes the doctor in reverse. Uncontrollable caused by confusion of positioning is indeed dangerous. In the film, Jung did not use his family or his wife to refuse Sabina. Instead, he repeated "I am your doctor". Perhaps what really frightened him was not family pressure or family pressure. It is the guilt after betraying his wife but the loss of his position in the process of interacting with Sabina. When the patient is just a patient, he can stand firmly on the position of a doctor and watch their madness, but when the patient gradually improves, or gradually returns to the acceptable range of society, he can confront him. While waiting for local exchanges, the line between doctors and patients blurred, the line between abnormality and daily life blurred, the line between reason and madness blurred, and at this time, where is his own position?

At the end of the film, Jung and Sabina reunited by the lake. It seems that many of the most important dialogues between them in this film took place at the lake, just like the first time Sabina mentioned her thoughts to Jung. To become a psychoanalyst.
"I want to be a psychoanalyst, do you think I can do it?"
"Of course. You have the qualities we need."
"Do you mean madness?"
Jung was slightly surprised, and immediately confronted Sabin, who was watching him eagerly. Na smiled appreciatively.
When you stare at the abyss, the abyss also stares at you. When the analyst analyzes the madness, isn't he trying to understand or synchronize with the madness?
Mad men and geniuses often have only one step.
At his smile, Sabina laughed, blatantly mad, so dazzling madly that Jung couldn't find another person to replace it during his life.
"She's not like you. She... reminds me of you."
No one knows your genius like I do, and no one knows my madness, nothing more.

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Extended Reading
  • Kyleigh 2022-04-24 07:01:10

    The rhythm is badly controlled and the dialogue is dry. .

  • Joyce 2022-04-23 07:02:25

    Neurotic like overexertion 3766 Psychological analysis The discussion section is very boring. Keira's big chin and that little areola. You have done your best.

A Dangerous Method quotes

  • Carl Jung: I can only tell you that she's rather disorganized, emotionally generous, and exceptionally idealistic.

    Sigmund Freud: Well, perhaps it's a Russian thing.

  • Sigmund Freud: I have simply opened a door. It's for the young men like yourself to walk through it. I'm sure you have many more doors to open for us. Of course, there's the added difficulty, more ammunition for our enemies, that all of us here in Vienna, in our psychoanalytical circle, are Jews.

    Carl Jung: I don't see what difference that makes.

    Sigmund Freud: That, if I may say so, is an exquisitely Protestant remark.