Experiential Art Therapy with the characters
In A Dangerous Method
Nikita Viswanath
New York University - Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
Abstract
Since I have started interning just a couple of weeks back, I have taken the movie “A Dangerous Method” by David Cronenberg to use my class readings – Transference and Countertransference which helped me understand the movie better from a psychoanalytical perspective.
A Dangerous Method – Gist of the story
In 1904 a Russian woman named Sabin Spielrein arrives at Carl Jung 's clinic, seeking treatment for hysteria. Jung is eager to test Sigmund Freud 's theories on Sabin and, in fact, successfully treats her. Two years later Jung and Sabin meet Freud in person, and Jung takes over the treatment of Otto Gross, whose influence leads Jung to begin an affair with Sabin, contributing to a rift with Freud.
Background of the story
There are several specific techniques displayed in the film that do really do show ideas originally developed by Freud and his direct followers. First, in the film Jung refers to “the talking cure,” a term referring to the general techniques that Freud developed. At the time (the early 1900s), what we think of as this traditional form of therapy wasn’t traditional at all, and it was Freud who really expanded the role of simply …show more content…
The transference- countertransference field of a therapeutic relationship is a place where dissociative and traumatic interpersonal scenarios from past relationships can be reenacted and possibly resolved as long as the therapist is conscious of projective identification phenomena constellated between himself and his client (Davies & Dea, 1994). This was clearly not so for the young Jung and Sabin 's relationship with Jung was ultimately traumatising to her rather than
In A Dangerous Method
Nikita Viswanath
New York University - Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
Abstract
Since I have started interning just a couple of weeks back, I have taken the movie “A Dangerous Method” by David Cronenberg to use my class readings – Transference and Countertransference which helped me understand the movie better from a psychoanalytical perspective.
A Dangerous Method – Gist of the story
In 1904 a Russian woman named Sabin Spielrein arrives at Carl Jung 's clinic, seeking treatment for hysteria. Jung is eager to test Sigmund Freud 's theories on Sabin and, in fact, successfully treats her. Two years later Jung and Sabin meet Freud in person, and Jung takes over the treatment of Otto Gross, whose influence leads Jung to begin an affair with Sabin, contributing to a rift with Freud.
Background of the story
There are several specific techniques displayed in the film that do really do show ideas originally developed by Freud and his direct followers. First, in the film Jung refers to “the talking cure,” a term referring to the general techniques that Freud developed. At the time (the early 1900s), what we think of as this traditional form of therapy wasn’t traditional at all, and it was Freud who really expanded the role of simply …show more content…
The transference- countertransference field of a therapeutic relationship is a place where dissociative and traumatic interpersonal scenarios from past relationships can be reenacted and possibly resolved as long as the therapist is conscious of projective identification phenomena constellated between himself and his client (Davies & Dea, 1994). This was clearly not so for the young Jung and Sabin 's relationship with Jung was ultimately traumatising to her rather than