Jewish Life Moves In The Fast Lane. Freud, Jung, Sabina Make For Heady Theater Can You Spare A Few Minutes? MICHAEL ELKIN SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS Subscribe To The Jewish News. How Can You Afford Not To? )UST A FEW MINUTES A WEEK GIVE YOU ALL THE IMPORTANT LOCAL INFORMATION AND NEWS DELIVERED TO YOUR MAILBOX ONCE A WEEK. THE JEWISH NEWS r MS= again WM Min M5Mi% Mg, A3?= Mfg =WA ?V- ##5 0/Z grOM PiMM WM WW1 Save 37% off the newsstand Rice by responcing today. Receive 52 issues of The Jewish News plus five issues of Style magazine fcr only $42 ($58 out-of-state). Yes, I'd like my own subscription to The Jewish News. ❑ Ch arge to my D MasterCard Name 0 Visa Address Exp. I Card # City Signature (required) Zip State CC w D LU 1-- New subcribers only Phone Please send all payments along with this coupon to: The Jewish News, P.O. Box 2267, Southfield, MI 48037-2267. Allow 2-3 weeks for delivery. g For faster service call 810 354 6620 and charge it to your Visa or MasterCard between the hours of 8:30 an and 5:00 pm mmm mmm omm mom mom omm mmv mmm mmm mom - 8 2 Zip Gift Card Message My Address City State Phone My Name LLJ ❑ I'd like to send a subscription as a gift to: ❑ Payment enclosed. a ❑ Please bill me. - AD395 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