L'âme en jeu (The Soul Keeper)
In 1905 a nineteen-year-old girl, Sabina Spielrein, is admitted into a psychiatric hospital in Zurich whereas she suffers from a severe form of hysteria and refuses to eat. A young doctor, Carl Gustav, takes her under his care and, for the first time ever, experiments with the psychoanalytical method of Sigmund Freud. Thus is born a sweeping story of love and passion, which soars to the heights but also plunges to the most terrible depths of the 20th century.
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L'ame en Jeu Synopsis - Mermel112
Seduced by Jung, killed by hate, redeemed by history. In 1905 a 19-year-old Russian girl suffering from severe hysteria is admitted into a psychiatric hospital in Zurich. A young doctor, Carl Gustav Jung, takes her under his care and for the first time experiments with the psychoanalytical method of his teacher, Sigmund Freud. Based on recently exposed secret correspondence between Jung, Freud and Sabina Spielrein, this true story begins with the Spielrein's healing, closely related to her passionate love affair with Jung, followed by her return to post-revolutionary Russia ? where she became a psychoanalyst herself founding the famous White School ? and her sudden death in 1942, the victim of Nazi violence. The investigation of this story becomes an essential component of the film via two modern researchers, Marie, a young French scholar, and Fraser, a historian from Glasgow, who follow Sabina's life from Zurich to Moscow to Rostow, leading to the discovery of missing portions of the original correspondence. And since any exploration of others' lives inevitably leads to delving into one's own self, the two stories then finally interweave and are swept away in the passionate journey.
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L'ame en Jeu Synopsis - Mermel112
Seduced by Jung, killed by hate, redeemed by history. In 1905 a 19-year-old Russian girl suffering from severe hysteria is admitted into a psychiatric hospital in Zurich. A young doctor, Carl Gustav Jung, takes her under his care and for the first time experiments ...