A Dangerous Method Page #5

Well, perhaps he's reached the stage

where obedience...

is more important to him

than originality.

Hm.

I've tried to tackle him about his

obsession with sexuality, his insistence...

is left in every symptom

in sexual terms.

He's completely inflexible.

In my case, of course

he'd had been right.

Yes, as you would

expect him to be in many cases.

Possibly even in majority of cases.

There must be more than one hinge

into the universe.

Do you like Wagner?

The music and the man, yes.

I'm very interested

in the myth of Siegfried.

The idea that something

pure and heroic can come...

can come perhaps, only come

from a sin, even a sin as dark as incest.

This is very strange.

What?

As I've told you,

I don't believe in coincidence.

I believe nothing happens

by accident.

All these things have significance.

The fact is, I'm in the middle of writing

something myself about the Siegfried myth.

- Are you really?

- I assure you.

Uh, whi... wich is your favourite

of the operas?

Das Rheingold.

Yes, that's right.

Mine too.

Can I ask you something?

Of course.

Do you think there's any possibility,

I could ever be a psychiatrist?

I know you could.

I hear nothing but good reports

on your work at the university.

You're exactly

the kind of person we need.

Insane, you mean?

Yes.

We sane doctors

have serious limitations.

"Dear Friend, I feel I can, at last,

permit myself this informal"...

"mode of address as I ask you to

grant me a very particular favour".

"Dr. Otto Gross, a most brilliant,

but erratic character",

"is urgently in need

of your medical help".

"I consider him, apart from yourself,

the only man capable"...

"of making a major contribution

to our field".

"Whatever you do, don't let him out

before October",

"when I shall be able

to take him over from you".

"And remember

his father's warning"...

"made when Otto

was only a very small child".

"Watch out for him,

he bites".

You still feel threatened

by your father?

Anyone with any sense

feels threatened by my father.

He is extremely threatening.

His wish, to have you hospitalized,

you don't think that arises...

from a concern,

for your welfare?

Listen,

what does any normal old...

patriarch want...

in the twilight of his life?

Grandchildren, grandsons,

am I right?

And yet...

last summer,

when I presented him

with not one, but two little Grosses,

one by my wife,

one by one

of my most respectable mistresses,

was he grateful?

And now that there's

another one on the way,

admittedly by some woman...

I hardly know...

he's apoplectic.

And all he can think is to get me

banged away in some institution.

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