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Spielrein was to serve as a
bridge between the two men. She
wound up influencing the work
of both. As successful as the sto-
ry of the two men is, Spielrein's
story is one of tragedy. Betrayed
and rebuffed by Jung, she was
taken captive by German armies
invading her native Russia in
1942.
With her two daughters and
the rest of the region's Jews, she
was rounded up, sent to the local
synagogue and killed.
Aldo Carotenuto's discovery of
her diary, plus correspondence
between Spielrein and the oth-
er two doctors, has refocused in-
terest on the young woman's
seminal role in the world of psy-
choanalysis.
"Once her story got hold of me,
I was helpless," says Holtzman,
who spent six years bringing the
story to the stage.
Marin Hinkle has spent con-
siderably less time on preparing
to play the title role, but she is no
less fascinated.
"She went through the most
difficult transformations I have
ever read about or worked on as
an actress," says Hinkle
of Spielrein.
The actress goes
through her own trans-
formation, aging 40
years onstage. One
thing she did not have
to change was her per-
ception of what it means
to be Jewish.
Although gentile, the
actress grew up in a
Jewish community in
Massachusetts and felt
very much a part of her
Jewish
friends' spiritu-
Marin Hinkle (Sabina Spielrein), David Adkins
al lives.
(Beinswanger) and Kenneth Marks (Jung) in Willy
"I once asked my
Holtzman's Sabina.
mother, 'Why aren't we
pioneer his own theories of psy- Jewish?' And she said, even
though we're not, look at all the (1-/\
chology.
Based on the book A Secret friends you have who can teach
Symmetry, by Jungian psycho- you about Judaism."
Part of what Hinkle learned
analyst Aldo Carotenuto, Sabi-
na analyzes the title character— came from her attendance as a
the first of Jung's patients to be youth at summer programs at
given Freudian treatment — and the local Jewish community cen-
how she overcame her own emo- ter.
"I have a deep love and appre-
tional problems and became
ciation for Judaism," says Hin-
Jung's lover.
"At the time, Freud was look- kle, who found Spielrein's
ing for someone who could pronounced sense of Jewishness
`inherit' his practice of psycho- a lure for taking the part.
The role has taken the Broad-
analysis, a gentile heir," says
way actress (The Tempest) by
Holtzman.
"Freud did not want psycho- storm.
"This role is a part of me," she
analysis only to be thought of as
says. "It has changed my life.
a Jewish science."
"Sabina lived a brave life. She
Michael Elkin is the
faced
her own fears with such fe-
entertainment editor of the
rocity. That gives me courage to
Jewish Exponent in
deal with my own life." ❑
Philadelphia.
et against a backdrop of
mind games played out by
an unusual trio of psycho-
analysts is Willy Holtz-
man's Sabina.
Holtzman's work about the re-
lationship among Sigmund
Freud, Carl Jung and Sabina
Spielrein — a young, mentally ill
Jewish woman who became a
therapist and played a role in the
lives of the two legendary doctors
— is being produced by Prima-
ry Stages in New York.
"I was taught early on that
plays have to be relevant," says
the playwright. "This story, about
a deeply disturbed young woman
brought back to health, is a sto-
ry I would want to know about
no matter the names involved."
But what names: "The mo-
ment you have icons such as
Freud and Jung invoked, it be-
comes a burden for a playwright.
You have to humanize them.
Gods are very boring onstage,"
notes the writer.
Of particular interest is the re-
lationship between Freud and his
student, Jung, who went on to
rebel against his mentor and to