Stefani's review
When Nietzsche Wept
by Irvin D. Yalom
Okay, Stefani, you've convinced me to add a "to-read" list. I was trying to resist, but this book sounds too interesting to lose track of!
I hope you'll like the book when you get around to reading it. I must say the ending gave me the warm fuzzies (as I believe the expression goes)!
Stefani's review
When Nietzsche Wept by Irvin D. Yalom
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Viennese Dr. Josef Breuer is hired by Lou Salome to cure Friedrich Nietzsche of his obsession with her -- and psychoanalysis is born. This is a wonderful novel bringing together ideas from psychoanalysis and Nietzsche's philosophy to illuminate the nature and roots of obsession -- because Breuer himself finds himself ensnared by his memories of a beuatiful patient, "Anna O."...
The reader obviously has to suspend disbelief to allow this most unlikely relationship between dotctor and patient to unfold (the two reverse roles more than once, by the way), but it will be worth it. The period is rendered in wonderful detail, including a small role of young and keen Dr. Freud, who is developing his own ideas about the subconscious...
The ending, finally, is profound, satisfying and simply beautiful.
This is a kind of psycho/philosophical feel-good book. One star deduction for (very) occasional descent into lecture mode.
The reader obviously has to suspend disbelief to allow this most unlikely relationship between dotctor and patient to unfold (the two reverse roles more than once, by the way), but it will be worth it. The period is rendered in wonderful detail, including a small role of young and keen Dr. Freud, who is developing his own ideas about the subconscious...
The ending, finally, is profound, satisfying and simply beautiful.
This is a kind of psycho/philosophical feel-good book. One star deduction for (very) occasional descent into lecture mode.
Okay, Stefani, you've convinced me to add a "to-read" list. I was trying to resist, but this book sounds too interesting to lose track of!
I hope you'll like the book when you get around to reading it. I must say the ending gave me the warm fuzzies (as I believe the expression goes)!