A Dangerous Method

- Can I ask you something? - Of course. 417 00:32:15,585 --> 00:32:20,673 Do you think there's any possibility I could ever be a psychiatrist? 418 00:32:20,673 --> 00:32:22,516 I know you could. 419 00:32:22,675 --> 00:32:26,971 I hear nothing but good reports on your work at the university. 420 00:32:26,971 --> 00:32:30,202 You're exactly the kind of person we need. 421 00:32:30,641 --> 00:32:32,141 Insane, you mean? 422 00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:35,938 Yes. 423 00:32:35,938 --> 00:32:39,092 We sane doctors have serious limitations. 424 00:32:40,068 --> 00:32:41,570 <i>Dear friend...</i> 425 00:32:41,736 --> 00:32:45,990 <i>...I feel I can at last permit myself this informal mode of address...</i> 426 00:32:45,990 --> 00:32:49,995 <i>...as I ask you to grant me a very particular favor.</i> 427 00:32:50,161 --> 00:32:54,546 <i>Dr. Otto Gross, a most brilliant but erratic character...</i> 428 00:32:54,582 --> 00:32:57,967 <i>...is urgently in need of your medical help.</i> 429 00:32:58,002 --> 00:33:00,254 <i>I consider him, apart from yourself...</i> 430 00:33:00,254 --> 00:33:05,176 <i>...the only man capable of making a major contribution to our field.</i> 431 00:33:05,176 --> 00:33:08,513 <i>Whatever you do, don't let him out before October...</i> 432 00:33:08,513 --> 00:33:11,766 <i>...when I shall be able to take him over from you.</i> 433 00:33:11,766 --> 00:33:13,851 <i>And remember his father's warning...</i> 434 00:33:13,851 --> 00:33:17,389 <i>...made when Otto was only a very small child:</i> 435 00:33:17,522 --> 00:33:20,776 <i>"Watch out for him. He bites."</i> 436 00:33:20,942 --> 00:33:24,096 You still feel threatened by your father? 437 00:33:26,030 --> 00:33:30,501 Anyone with any sense feels threatened by my father. 438 00:33:30,868 --> 00:33:33,022 He is extremely threatening. 439 00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:39,886 His wish to have you hospitalized... 440 00:33:40,044 --> 00:33:44,890 ...you don't think that arises from a concern for your welfare? 441 00:33:46,717 --> 00:33:48,217 Listen. 442 00:33:53,224 --> 00:33:57,730 What does any normal old patriarch want... 443 00:33:57,895 --> 00:34:00,280 ...in the twilight of his life? 444 00:34:02,275 --> 00:34:04,744 Grandchildren, grandsons. 445 00:34:05,611 --> 00:34:07,238 Am I right? 446 00:34:08,072 --> 00:34:11,747 And yet, last summer... 447 00:34:11,909 --> 00:34:17,541 ...when I presented him with not one, but two little Grosses... 448 00:34:19,375 --> 00:34:21,252 ...one by my wife... 449 00:34:22,670 --> 00:34:26,516 ...one by one of my most respectable mistresses... 450 00:34:29,427 --> 00:34:30,927 ...was he grateful? 451 00:34:36,851 --> 00:34:39,562 And now that there's another one on the way... 452 00:34:39,562 --> 00:34:42,947 ...admittedly by some woman I hardly know... 453 00:34:43,274 --> 00:34:45,117 ...he's apoplectic. 454 00:34:46,110 --> 00:34:51,187 And all he can think is to get me banged away in some institution. 455 00:34:53,618 --> 00:34:56,387 - You got any children? - Two girls. 456 00:34:56,496 --> 00:34:58,965 - Same mother? - Yes. 457 00:35:03,503 --> 00:35:06,973 So you're not a believer in monogamy? 458 00:35:07,465 --> 00:35:09,383 For a neurotic like myself... 459 00:35:09,383 --> 00:35:13,460 ...I can't possibly imagine a more stressful concept. 460 00:35:15,264 --> 00:35:19,064 And you don't find it necessary or desirable... 461 00:35:19,227 --> 00:35:22,438 <i>...to exercise some restraint as a contribution, say...</i> 462 00:35:22,438 --> 00:35:25,107 ...to the smooth functioning of civilization. 463 00:35:25,107 --> 00:35:28,281 What, and make myself ill? 464 00:35:28,444 --> 00:35:31,739 I should have thought that some form of sexual repression... 465 00:35:31,739 --> 00:35:35,893 ...would have to be practiced in any rational society. 466 00:35:37,328 --> 00:35:41,097 No wonder the hospitals are bulging at the seams. 467 00:35:44,502 --> 00:35:46,002 Tell me... 468 00:35:46,420 --> 00:35:50,341 ...do you find the best way to enhance your popularity with patients... 469 00:35:50,341 --> 00:35:53,844 ...is to tell them whatever it is they most want to hear? 470 00:35:53,844 --> 00:35:56,806 Does it matter whether we're popular with them or not? 471 00:35:56,806 --> 00:35:58,604 Well, I don't know. 472 00:35:58,766 --> 00:36:01,074 Suppose you want to fuck them. 473 00:36:06,232 --> 00:36:11,739 If there is one thing I've learned in my short life, it's this: 474 00:36:12,488 --> 00:36:15,367 Never repress anything. 475 00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:04,812 So you've never slept with any of your patients? 476 00:37:05,124 --> 00:37:06,922 Of course not. 477 00:37:07,084 --> 00:37:09,420 I have to steer through the temptations... 478 00:37:09,420 --> 00:37:12,506 ...of transference and countertransf