07/03/2003

The Centre against Violence towards Women, "Roberta Lanzino" in Cosenza has decided to celebrate March 8 (Editor’s Note National womens’ Day) with the first national screening of the film by Elisabeth Márton My Name was Sabina Spielrein [+see also:
trailer
film profile] (The Trailer). It’s a Swedish production that has, as yet, been unpublished in Italy, concentrating on the life of one of the great female figures of the 20th century. The main character in the recent film by Roberto Faenza Prendimi l'anima [+see also:
interview: Roberto Faenza
film profile], Sabina Spielrein was a patient of Jung and then a pupil of Freud, who went on to become a psychoanalyst in her won right and who founded the famous "White Nursery " in Moscow, before being killed by the Nazis.

There’ll be a meeting after the film, called “The Value of Words", held at the Casa delle Culture in Cosenze, including speeches by Nelide Romeo, the mayor Eva Catizone and Aldo Carotenuto, a psychology teacher who re-discovered Sabina Spielrein and wrote the book "Diary of a Secret Symmetry", which reveals the correspondence between Spielrein, Jung and Freud.

(Translated from Italian)