Morose and unfriendly, Nietzsche declares he cannot benefit from treatment in a clinic.

Nietzsche reluctantly travels to Vienna to be examined by Dr. Breuer believes he can cure the matter via a new method that he calls the “talking treatment.” Fascinated by this so called despair, which he himself suffers following the sexual obsession of a former female patient named Anna O., Dr.

Breuer to keep his status as physician a secret as well. Breuer to examine Nietzsche, as long as he keeps her involvement a secret. Lou cannot stand to see the world lose one of its budding philosophers. Breuer is the only person who can rid Nietzsche of his suicidal despair, brought on by an illness doctors cannot identify. Breuer that her close friend, a young man named Friedrich Nietzsche, is in dire need of treatment for his migraines. Famous 40-year-old Jewish doctor, Josef Breuer, is met in a café by Lou Salome, a gorgeous Russian lady. Told in the third person limited POV, the story begins in Vienna in 1882. When Nietzsche Wept was adapted into a feature film in 2007 by Millennium Films. Thematically, the novel touches on fear, despair, desire, mental illness, medical treatment, psychotherapy, hypnosis, and limerence (romantic obsession). Given Yalom’s background as Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Stanford University, the novel serves as a literary evaluation of the history of philosophy and psychoanalytic practice. Josef Breuer and philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, the therapeutic result of which leads to the creation of modern psychoanalysis. Predominantly set in Vienna in the 1880s, the story entertains a hypothetical meeting between real life figures Dr. When Nietzsche Wept is the 1992 historical fiction novel written by American existentialist Irvin D.

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