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The Talking Cure

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  3w, 4m, 2girl(s)

Christopher Hampton

This play deals with the early years of C.G. Jung and his decision to experiment, using Freud's controversial new method of psychoanalysis, with a young Russian patient, Sabina Spielrein.

The Talking Cure

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    3w, 4m, 2girl(s)
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Biography, Period
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult

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Summary

The success of the experiment and the blossoming of his relationship with Sabina inaugerates, haunts and ultimately poisons Jung's friendship with Freud; and the ideas and conflicts which engulf the three of them embody, as Jung comes to realize, the destructive forces which are to overwhelm the disastrous century ahead.

Cast Attributes
Keywords

Carl Gustav Jung: 29.
Emma Jung: 22.
Sabina Spielrein: 18.
Sigmund Freud: 50.
Otto Gross: 30.
Nurse: 20s.
Orderly.
Russian Girl: 6.
SS Officer.
Agathe Jung: 6-8.

  • Time Period 1900-1910
  • Setting

    Various settings

  • Features Period Costumes
  • Cautions
    • Intense Adult Themes

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Authors

Christopher Hampton

Christopher Hampton

Christopher Hampton became involved in theatre while studying French and German at Oxford University, and wrote a play in his first year.

The Royal Court's subsequent production was so successful that it transferred to the Comedy Theatre while he was still a student, making hi ...

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