Synopsis
The Soul Keeper (Prendimi l'anima, 2003) is a historical drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Roberto Faenza. It reconstructs the largely buried story of Sabina Spielrein — a real woman whose diaries and correspondence with Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud sat locked in archives until 1977.
Zurich, 1905. A nineteen-year-old Russian woman, Sabina, arrives at the Burghölzli clinic in a severe state — refusing food, classified as hysterically ill. Jung, still a junior doctor, takes her case and applies Freud's method for the first time. Iain Glen plays Jung, Emilia Fox is Sabina, Craig Ferguson appears as Freud. The professional relationship between doctor and patient crosses every boundary it was supposed to hold.
Faenza frames Spielrein not as a footnote to the Freud–Jung correspondence, but as the centre of her own story. She went on to become one of the first practising female psychoanalysts in Europe. Stream The Soul Keeper (2003) online on iFILM.
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