want? Cronenberg signals Jung's ignorance in a scene where Jung asks Emma to do a word association test. Her hesitancy at words such as 'marriage' and 'divorce' leads Sabina -- in her first job as Jung's assistant and a junior shrink -- to opine that Emma is anxious that her husband will be unfaithful. Jung seems surprised, choosing to respond to Sabina's insights, and deflect his own feelings, with a compliment: 'You've a flair for this.' It's an appalling untruth about Emma. If Cronenberg had represented Emma as the woman she was -- smart and confident, an intellectual on a par with her husband who became an analyst -- it would destroy the (quite conservative) balance between male and female he seeks to establish. Sex, for Emma, is about procreation, not recreation, so of course Jung would get the hots for Sabina. She's wild! She's fascinating! She's panting with lust! Emma couldn't possibly be any good in bed -- so quiet, so fastidious, so dull! Emma isn't going to ask to be tied up and have her bum smacked now, is she? Cronenberg underscores the scenario of inevitability by pitting Jung against two devils who lure him with the temptations of the flesh: the first is Spielrein, the other is Otto Gross (Vincent Cassel). Gross, a doctor and a psychoanalyst, was confined at the Burghlzli and treated by Jung for cocaine addiction. The contest goes some distance towards ameliorating Jung's irresponsible behaviour as a doctor who had an affair with