Quotes

Others

It seems to me the measure of the true perversity of the human race, that one of its very few reliably pleasurable activities should be the subject of so much hysteria and repression.

Others

Perhaps true sexuality demands the destruction of the ego.

Dialogue

Doctor: I feel you may have a little too much time on your hands. I'm a great believer in getting our patients involved in some productive work. What are your particular interests? Spielrein: Suicide. Interplanetary travel.

Dialogue

Jung: I can only tell you that she's rather disorganized, emotionally generous, and exceptionally idealistic. Freud: Well, perhaps it's a Russian thing.

Dialogue

Freud: I have simply opened a door. It's for the young men like yourself to walk through it. I'm sure you have many more doors to open for us. Of course, there's the added difficulty, more ammunition for our enemies, that all of us here in Vienna, in our psychoanalytical circle, are Jews. Jung: I don't see what difference that makes. Freud: That, if I may say so, is an exquisitely Protestant remark.

Dialogue

Spielrein: I somehow imagined you'd have found another admirer by now. Jung: No. You were the jewel of great price.

Dialogue

Spielrein: When my father brought me to you I was very ill and my illness was sexual. It's clear that the subject I'm studying is entirely grounded in sexuality so naturally I'm becoming more and more acutely aware of the fact that I have no sexual experience. Jung: Law students are not normally expected to rob banks.