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I love it how Carl died peacefully...spoilers


Otto Gross starved to death in Berlin.
Freud died of cancer in London.
Sabina Spielrein was shot by the Nazis.

Out of all of them, Carl Jung, outlived his wife and mistress and died peacefully

This stands proof that a healthy sex life and multiple partners makes your life so much more easy.

Otto Gross was right.




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I wouldn't really say it's a spoiler since it's historical :)

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Well, I was accused of spoiling movies for people in the past.
I don't want to jump all over people's sensibilities here.
Even when pronouncing a historical fact.





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This film impressed me deeply... but I must say, not everything on the screen was crystal clear.

I'm questioning: WHY did Sabina have to take two spankings? I'm being totally serious here. The first spanking, given to her by Jung, seemed real. There is a second "spanking," which was clearly NOT real, but we are asked to consider it real anyway.

It never made sense to me that Jung was beating his patient Sabina, for some undisclosed reason, and we were "treated" to sit through all of it. Was this part of Sabina's therapy? How is that any help to her?

Cheers,
Dan



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Not really.

Jung was mentally unstable and suffered from psychotic episodes from 1913-1917. Without the support of his wife and his mistress Toni Wolff (who Emma condoned because Toni was often the only one who could calm him down) Jung might well have ended up in Burghoelzli himself - as a patient.

"spoilers" LOL

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Sol-Invictus, you've posted some interesting facts about Carl Jung that are not widely known.

Is there a source for such information that you can recommend?

Thanks.

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Yes, a healthy sex life will prevent you from being shot by Nazis.

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Right? Watching the "epilogue" I was saying, "that's too bad. That's too bad. Wow, that's too bad. Aw that's nice."

Lucky Jung.


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Som Invictus is right about Jung's own crises...and much more could be said. Jung's polygamy brought with it years of torment, not only for Jung who
came near to suicide.

That calm Jung acheived was hard won.

For details, see the 2003 biography of Jung by Deirdre Bair (the euphemistic side stepping of Jung's personal crises in earlier biographies is itself remarkable).

You are being facetious, neamtzu_rau, when you say 'Otto Gross was right'!?


















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The point is that Jung did die peacefully - in 1961. Invictus's reference to his early-1900's crisis just after breaking with Freud is irrelevant to the thread subject. Also missing is the fact that, with this crisis, Jung's real career began, and his "madness" was really his courageous swim in the dark waters of the unconscious - from which he emerged triumphant and laden with secret treasures from that realm.

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"...from which he emerged triumphant and laden with secret treasures from that realm."

Not one, of them, alas, worth a damn.

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Not one, of them, alas, worth a damn.

Like your opinion.

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@bastasch8647

The point is that Jung did die peacefully - in 1961. Invictus's reference to his early-1900's crisis just after breaking with Freud is irrelevant to the thread subject. Also missing is the fact that, with this crisis, Jung's real career began, and his "madness" was really his courageous swim in the dark waters of the unconscious - from which he emerged triumphant and laden with secret treasures from that realm.

Hear, hear! Well-stated. 



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Lula, thanks for your kind words.

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That's hilarious. How you link their deaths to something they all have in common. A smoker died of cancer, a drug addict died of drugs, and a jew died by nazis but nope. A healthy sex life is what saved Jung LOL

What

A

MORON

LMAO

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I'll go ahead and make the assumption that your post is a form of sarcasm.



Time wounds all heels.

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@Gabe1972

I'll go ahead and make the assumption that your post is a form of sarcasm.

Haha! One can only hope...


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