The talking cure
By: Christopher Hampton
Publisher: Faber
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 88
Subjects: Drama; Psychoanalysis
Description: Christopher Hampton's 'The Talking Cure' deals with the early years of C.G. Jung, and his decision to experiment, using Freud's controversial new method of psychoanalysis, with a young Russian patient, Sabine Spielrein. The success of the experiment and the blossoming of his relationship with Sabine inaugurates, haunts and ultimately poisons Jung's friendship with Freud; and the ideas and conflicts which engulf the three of them embody, as Jung comes to realize, the destructive forces which are to overwhelm the disastrous century ahead.