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On reflection Postgrad Med J: first published as 10.1136/bjo.2008.150151corr1 on 2 November 2011. Downloaded from month, the director David Cronenberg is Yet by a coincidencedIhavenoreason 2. Kerr J. A Most Dangerous Method: The story of releasing a movie about her, with the title to believe it is anything elsedthe movie Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein. New York: Alfred ‘ ’ 15 Knopf, 1993. A dangerous method . Cronenberg is will be coming out exactly a century after 3. Carotenuto A. A Secret Symmetry: Sabina Spielrein best known for his horror and science Sabina Spielrein presented her lecture to between Freud and Jung. New York: Pantheon, 1982. fiction movies, which have earned him the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society on 4. McGuire W. The Freud/Jung Letters. Princeton: nicknames like the Baron of Blood and ‘Destruction as the cause of coming into Princeton University Press, 1974. the King of Venereal Horror. This movie, being’. It was on 29 November 1911 5. Covington C, Wharton B, eds. Sabina Spielrein, Forgotten Pioneer of Psychoanalysis. London: however, appears to be in a more that she stood before Freud, put Brunner-Routledge, 2003. measured genre. The script has been forward her argument about the biological 6. Van Waning A. The works of pioneering adapted from a play by Christopher basis of all the struggles we face as psychoanalyst Sabina Spielrein. Int Rev Psychoanal e Hampton, which in turn drew on her human beings, and summed these up in 1992;19:399 413. ‘ ’ 7. Ovcharenko V. Love, psychoanalysis and biography by John Kerr. The heroine in the the simple formula sex versus survival .It destruction. J Anal Psychol 1999;44:355e73. movie is played by Keira Knightley, who would be wonderful, and well deserved, 8. Spielrein S. Destruction as the cause of coming has been tipped for an Oscar nomination if the same date 100 years later marked the into being [translation]. J Anal Psychol for her performance. turning point in our understanding and 1994;39:155e86. Like nearly every account of Sabina assessment of Sabina Spielrein. Perhaps one 9. Clark WR. Sex and the Origins of Death. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Spielrein, the movie will dwell mainly on day there really will be a Spielrein Institute 10. Haig D. Genetic conflicts in human pregnancy. Q Rev her notorious triangular relationship with in honour of a woman who I believe was Biol 1993;68:495e532. Jung and Freud. To judge by the trailer, an unrecognised genius. 11. Buss D. The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of and comments from previews in Venice Human Mating. Revised edn. New York: Basic Books, 2003. and Toronto, it is a thoughtful and accu- Competing interests John Launer is preparing a book on Sabina Spielrein for publication. 12. Slavin M, Kriegman D. The Adaptive Design of the rate account of what happened between Human Psyche: Psychoanalysis, Evolutionary Biology the three protagonists, although Cronen- Provenance and peer review Commissioned; and the Therapeutic Process. London: Guilford Press, berg has taken some poetic licence in the internally peer reviewed. 1992. sex scenes. For example, it shows Jung Published Online First 14 October 2011 13. Gilbert P, Bailey K, eds. Genes on the Couch: d Explorations in Evolutionary Psychotherapy. London: beating Spielrein at her request for Postgrad Med J 2011;87:791e792. Brunner-Routledge, 2000. which there is absolutely no evidence. The doi:10.1136/postgradmedj-2011-130489 14. Launer J. Forthcoming. Sex Versus Survival: the movie will no doubt raise her profile unrecognized genius of Sabina Spielrein. London, hugely, which is all to the good, although Kindle Direct, 2011. REFERENCES 15. http://adangerousmethod-movie.com (accessed 26 it will probably give a limited view of her 1. Appignanesi L, Forrester J. Freud’s Women. Sep 2011). true stature as a thinker. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1992. Correction http://pmj.bmj.com/ Borooah S, Collins C, Wright A, et al. Late-onset retinal macular degeneration: clinical insights into an inherited retinal degeneration. Postgrad Med J 2009;85:495e500. This article was originally published in the British Journal of Ophthalmology (Br J Ophthalmol 2009;93:284e9) and later published in Postgraduate Medical Journal as a republished article. The title in the republished article in Postgraduate Medical Journal should have been prefixed with “Republished review:” and the doi should have been doi:10.1136/pgmj.2008.150151rep.We apologise for this error. on October 2, 2021 by guest. Protected copyright. Postgrad Med J 2011:87:792. doi:10.1136/bjo.2008.150151corr1 PAGE fraction trail=1.5 792 Postgrad Med J November 2011 Vol 87 No 1033.