Spielrein

Spielrein is one of those fascinating historical characters who has been popping-up in movies and plays increasingly over the past five years.

Spend Tuesday night with Sabrina « The Blog at 16th and Q 2008

For the rest, it is everyone's privilege to speculate what associations the part "rein" in the name Spielrein evoked in Jung's mind.

Playing Dirty Petzoldt, Volker 1983

Thus, given Spielrein's pathological efforts to avoid defecation when a child, it makes good sense to assume that she, and Jung, associated the "rein" in the name Spielrein to "sauber."

Playing Dirty Petzoldt, Volker 1983

Jung to Freud, 4 June 1909: ‘Spielrein is the person I wrote you about.

Sabina Spielrein and Lou Andreas Salome 2008

Jung to Freud, 4 June 1909: ‘Spielrein is the person I wrote you about.

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The cast remains great, even without Waltz: Michael Fassbender plays Carl Jung, Viggo Mortensen replaced Waltz as Sigmund Freud, and Keira Knightley is Sabina Spielrein, the patient seen by both men.

David Cronenberg’s ‘The Talking Cure’ Now Called ‘A Dangerous Method’ | /Film 2010

Asked how she'd prepared for her role as Sabina Spielrein in A Dangerous Method, evolving from psycho to psychiatric student, Knightley said she sent director David Cronenberg some mad scenes on Skype for his comments.

Erica Abeel: Toronto Diary: Keira, Viggo and Newcomer Dee Rees Erica Abeel 2011

We're back to being all Jews together and that includes you Miss Spielrein, who have now been rejected by your lover.

Erica Abeel: A Dangerous Method Is an Action Movie for Grownups Erica Abeel 2011

In spite of all of her accomplishments, Sabrina Spielrein will now mostly known as the patient who slept with Carl Jung.

Margaret Wheeler Johnson: 'A Dangerous Method': Does The Film Do Sabina Spielrein Justice? Margaret Wheeler Johnson 2011

At the time, he seemed to have a fantastic cast lined up: Christoph Waltz as Freud, Michael Fassbender as Jung, and Keira Knightley as Sabina Spielrein, the patient with whom both men have a relationship of sorts.

Viggo Mortensen Replaces Christoph Waltz in David Cronenberg’s The Talking Cure | /Film 2010