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<\/a><\/p>\nHere there be giants. \u00a0Fin de siecle Europe. \u00a0We’ve not recovered yet from the explosion of ideas that erupted there: \u00a0quantum mechanics, relativity, Marxism, symbolists, dada, surrealism, the airplane, electricity, lights, antibiotics, cubism, expressionism, fauvism, psychoanalysis, world war.<\/p>\n
Just finished watching A Dangerous Method with Vigo Mortennsen as Freud, Michael Fassbender as Jung and Keira Knightley as\u00a0Sabina Spielrein. \u00a0To my taste Cronenberg’s focus on Jung’s mistress tilted the film away from the revolutionary work Freud and Jung had created. \u00a0But, perhaps my approach would lead more to documentary.<\/p>\n
Still, what I got was a clear sense of the frisson between them and the astonishing, breath-taking really, courage it took to think the thoughts and engage in the work they did. \u00a0That’s what led me back to the fin de siecle.<\/p>\n
There were radicals alive. \u00a0It must have been in the water. \u00a0Seeing visions. \u00a0Looking inside the mind. \u00a0Down inside the atom. \u00a0How to lift humankind into the air. \u00a0How to cure disease.<\/p>\n
The audacity and daring inspires me, makes me want to tread as far out on the pier as I can go, to risk falling into the void, the abyss. \u00a0To see. \u00a0To feel. \u00a0To embrace.<\/p>\n
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