A Dangerous Method, directed by David Cronenberg

14/05/2014 18:51

Jung: What he'll never accept is that what we understand has got us nowhere.

We have to go into uncharted territory. We have to go back,

to the sources of everything we believe.

I don't want to just open a door and show the patient his illness,

squatting there like a toad. I want to try and find a way to help

 the patient reinvent himself, to send him off on a journey,

 at the end of which is waiting the person he was always

intended to be.

Sabina: It's no good making yourself ill in the process.

Jung: Only the wounded physician can hope to heal.

Sabina: I'm told you have a new mistress.

Jung: Is that right?

Sabina: What's her name?

Jung: Toni.

Sabina: Is she like me?

Jung: No.

Sabina: She's an ex-patient.

Jung: Yes.

Sabina: Jewish.

Jung: Half Jewish.

Sabina: Training to be an analyst.

Jung: Yes.

Sabina: But she's not like me?

Jung: Of course she makes me think of you.

Sabina: How do you make it work?

Jung: I don't know. Emma, as you've seen, is the foundation of my house;

 Toni is the perfume in the air.

My love for you was the most important thing in my life.

For better or worse, it made me understand who I am.

...

This should be mine.

Sabina: Yes.

Jung: Sometimes you have to do something unforgivable,

 just to be able to go on living.