do I know myself? How do I know myself?

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Adapted from real events, the film tells the story of Jung, Sabina, and Freud, all three masters in psychology.

The heroine Sabina was born in a wealthy business family. She received a good education since she was a child. However, under her beautiful appearance, she suffered from bipolar disorder. When she got sick, she would feel itchy and irritable. Therefore, she was forced by her father to be sent to the psychological research hospital where the male protagonist Jung was, and became his patient.

Jung, a physician specializing in psychoanalysis, was obsessed with the job, always dissecting his patients comprehensively. At the same time, Jung was not satisfied with the status quo, he longed to study more typical patients. Jung met Sabina like this, and he couldn't wait to show his skills, but Sabina didn't cooperate. She went on hunger strike, squeezed the food with her hands, and jumped into the pit without anyone noticing and covered herself. It's mud, making the hospital uneasy.

The patient had to change the obsessive treatment method used in the mental hospital for a long time, so he took word association and talk therapy for Sabina. Jung avoided Sabina and sat behind her to ask and record. A way of talking about what to discover and what to change in order to heal.

Jung gradually discovered the crux of Sabina through talk therapy: it turned out that Sabina had a very perverted father. When she was a child, she was often punished by her father for her bare buttocks. She would gain sexual pleasure from humiliation. This kind of pleasure was suppressed, but it still interfered with her perception and emotions. This enjoyment made her gradually sensible feel a strong shame, so Sabina's previous behaviors were a kind of confrontation that she could not accept. By guiding Sabina to gradually become normal, she gradually learns to face her own trauma in the conversation, and speaks out what has been repressed with language, instead of re-suppressing it with morality.

But at the same time, Jung was full of kindness, patience, and concern, and stretched the patient's vigilance and precaution. As a result, Sabina opened her heart to him. During the diagnosis and treatment, Sabina gradually moved towards him because of Jung's gentleness and consideration. Heart. Especially when she talks about ideals and says she can't be a doctor. Jung's words, why not, gave her hope again, and Jung also looked at Sabina with admiration in getting along, and promised to let her be his assistant.

The two, who are with each other all the time, talk about life and the development of psychoanalysis. The two had a lust for each other. Facing this relationship, Sabina took the initiative. During an outing, she bravely kissed Jung.

But at this time, Jung's family lived a happy and prosperous life, and he was entangled when facing her. Different from the courageous Sabina, his wife is a gentle, virtuous, elegant and noble lady. She is not only beautiful, but also has a fairly wealthy family. The shot is a luxury sailboat, and she will apologize to Jung for giving birth to a daughter.

Jung told Otto of his distress, and under Otto's bewitchment, he faced his desire for Sabina, and finally took this step.

And since the two were together, Sabina's manic symptoms have also eased. The two blatantly cheated on Jung's wife. It is difficult for Jung's wife to know. She not only spreads the relationship between the two, but also directly and Rong In the grid showdown, everything was done by Sabina, and the love-hate relationship between the three people is constantly being rationalized and chaotic...

This period is also interspersed with the teacher-student relationship, father-son relationship, and the final break between Jung and Freud.

After Jung fell in love with Sabina, he only learned a little bit about his dark side and all of himself. Jung later recalled that he was almost literally going crazy and split. But he finally found the answer to be "self-nature", the lowest-level prototype of human nature. How to most directly explain the "self-nature" to reconcile with its inner shadow, reconciliation with others, reconciliation with nature, reconciliation with the universe... reconciliation with life, this is the core of Jung's thought.

———————————————————————— Carl Jung - Classic Quotes

1. For the individual, in order to achieve self, we must accept those low and perverted, even chaotic things in our nature. We need to treat the shadow with understanding and love, not repression and denial.

2. Loneliness does not come from being alone. The real reason for feeling lonely is because a person cannot communicate with others the feelings that matter most to him.

3. The first half of your life may belong to others and live in what others think. Give that back to yourself for the rest of your life, to follow your inner voice.

4. Understanding your own dark side is the best way to deal with the dark side of others.

5. The scariest thing is to accept yourself completely. But he (Jung) also said: "For ordinary people, the most important lesson in life is to learn to accept themselves.

6. Rather than being a good person, I would rather be a complete person.

7. Everything that prompts us to notice others leads us to understand ourselves better.

8. The wavering of thought is not between right and wrong, but a wandering between rational and irrational.

9. A man's lifelong effort is to integrate the character he has formed since childhood.

10. You don't even want to change other people's thoughts. Just like the sun, it just emits light and heat. Everyone's reaction to receiving sunlight is different. Some people find it dazzling, others feel warm, and some even avoid the sun. There is no sign of the seeds before they germinate because it has not reached that point in time. Only you are your savior.

11. It's all about how we see things, not how things are.

12. What you are not aware of becomes your "destiny".

13. The word "happy" would be meaningless without a balance of sadness.

14. In life, the most insignificant but meaningful things are more valuable than the greatest but meaningless things.

15. We refuse to admit that all good things come at some greater price. —— "Jung's Autobiography: Memories, Dreams, Reflections"

16. Those who look outward are dreamers, and those who look inward are awake.

17. The dream has nothing to hide, we just don't understand its language. What dreams show us is the unmodified natural truth. Dreams are the spontaneous and undistorted products of the unconscious mind. Dreams are enlightenment, and it is the subconscious effort of human beings to make the whole mind more harmonious and rational. Most crises have a long incubation period that is just invisible to the conscious mind. Dreams can reveal this secret.

18. The greatest sin of faith, in my opinion, is the rejection of experience. —— "Autobiography of Jung: Memories, Dreams and Reflections" ———————————————————————— Carl Gustav Jung (1875~1961), Switzerland Psychologist, founder of analytical psychology. He studied medicine at the University of Basel, and then went to Paris to study psychology with the French psychologist Pierre Janet. After returning to China, he successively served as a physician and a psychology lecturer at the Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Zurich, a professor of psychology at the Zurich Polytechnic School, and a professor of medical psychology at the University of Basel. First meeting with Sigmund Freud in 1907. In 1908, with the support of Freud, the International Psychoanalytic Association was founded and the first meeting was held in Salzburg, Austria. "Analytical Psychology" was founded in 1914.

Propose the concept of "complex". Personality is divided into introversion and extroversion. It advocates that the personality is divided into three layers: consciousness, personal unconscious and collective unconscious. The main works are: "Red Book", "Man and its Symbols" (1960), "Analytical Psychology Essays", "Psychological Form" and so on.

Jung believed that the fantasies or delusions of mental patients are based on the common basic patterns of myths, legends, stories, etc. since ancient times, so he advocated the so-called archetypal point of view.

———————————————————————— Sabina was born on November 7, 1885 in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, to a wealthy Jewish family, fifth in The eldest of children. Her father, Naphtul Spielrein, was a successful businessman, and her mother, Emilia (Eva), was a dentist. Emilia was engaged to a Christian, but was arranged by her own father to marry Sabina's father, so Sabina's parents did not seem to have real love, thus creating a harsh and violent family.

However, although the father is the tyrant of the family and the mother will abuse the children, they attach great importance to the education of their children. Sabina, who grew up in such an environment, not only speaks fluent Russian, but also learns German, French and English.

Sabina, who has been frail since childhood, is weak and sensitive, but her academic performance is very good. In addition to the school courses, she also studied piano and Latin.

She liked the natural sciences and decided to study medicine in the future, which happened to be one of the few jobs that Jews were allowed to do at that time. In addition, at the age of 15, her 6-year-old sister died of a cold, which also had a huge impact on her life.

She was an active and brilliant physician and one of the first pioneers of female psychology. She was the first to put forward the concept that human beings have both survival and death instincts at the same time, which was later adopted by Freud as the life drive and the death drive.

Although she was arguably the first outstanding female psychoanalyst, her contributions to the field of psychology were overlooked and even forgotten until, in the mid-1970s, she was accidentally discovered in a Geneva basement. Diaries and letters made industry experts and gossip people turn their attention to her.

However, most people are still more concerned with her triangular relationship as a woman with Jung and Freud, without really seeing her great contribution as a pioneer of female psychology.

———————————————————————— Sigmund Freud (1856~1939), Austrian Jewish psychologist and psychiatrist . Founder of psychoanalysis. He studied at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Vienna and received his MD in 1881. Private practice as a clinical psychiatrist from the following year. Engaged in hypnotherapy in the early days, and later used psychoanalysis. In 1936 he was elected as a Corresponding Member of the Royal Society. In 1938, Austria was occupied by Germany and took refuge in the United Kingdom. He died of jaw cancer soon after.

Freud was born into a large Jewish family, with two half-brothers above him, two siblings and five younger sisters below. From a young age, Freud was gifted and intelligent, with excellent academic performance, and had great ambitions, believing that he would become a great scientist.

Sigmund Freud was born in Moravia on May 6, 1856, and his family moved to Vienna when he was 4 years old. He showed extraordinary intelligence in middle school, and his grades have always been among the best. He was admitted to the University of Vienna Medical School at the age of 17. From 1876 to 1881, he conducted research work under the guidance of the famous physiologist Ernest Bruck. And started private practice in 1881 as a clinical neurologist.

He started private practice in 1881 as a clinical neurologist. In 1886, he married Martha Burleigh, with whom he had three sons and three daughters, and a daughter, Anna Freud, who later became a well-known psychologist. In 1938, he moved to London due to Nazi persecution, and died in London on September 23, 1939 of oral cancer.

Freud's interest in psychoanalysis arose in 1884 during his collaboration with J. Breuer in the treatment of a 21-year-old hysterical named Anna Ou, who had learned from Breuer first. Catharsis therapy, and then learned hypnotism from J. Shake, and then he proposed free association therapy, and in 1897 founded the self-analysis method. His most significant contribution to psychology in his lifetime was the revelation of human unconscious processes, the theory of personality structure, the theory of human sexual instinct, and the theory of psychological defense mechanisms.

He divided human psychology into consciousness, preconsciousness and unconsciousness, and then into consciousness and unconsciousness (including suppressed unconsciousness and latent unconsciousness). It is believed that the sexual instinct existing in the unconscious is the basic driving force of human psychology, the force that dominates personal destiny and determines the development of society; and divides the personality into three parts: ego, id and superego. Its theories have been absorbed and applied in various fields of Western philosophy and humanities.

His main works include "The Interpretation of Dreams" (1900), "Psychopathology of Daily Life" (1904), "Introduction to Psychoanalysis" (1910), "Totem and Taboo" (1913), "Introduction to Psychoanalysis New Edition" (1933) et al.

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  • Otto Gross: 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.

  • Carl Jung: Angels always speak German. It's tradition.