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4.15 AVERAGE
4.15 AVERAGE
emotional
informative
inspiring
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
An incredible book, in the beginning it is pretty good, howver the further you get through the better it gets. Every chapter is wellwritten and filled to the brim with interesting philosophy. So you keep thinking back the book after you're done.
I never expected this book to actually be about Nietzsche, I went into it blind and thought the title was an allegory. When Nietzsche was mentioned, I was kinda dissapointed; not expecting it to go well. When however Nietzsche was introduced, I was impressed by how well they handled him.
I felt I learned alot about Nietzsche's philosophy through this book, in a much more digestable way than I probably could have by reading his actual works (I had never planned to, so I'm glad I got a proper introduction to him here).
The lessons taught in this book can be applied to anyone and anyones life. You see things a little differently afterwards, they dont fundamentally alter your life, but it's far better than 95% of all other books.
Josef Breuyer is also a really well written character, even if you get angry at him at times.
All in all it's a good book, well actually a great book. I highly recommend it.
I never expected this book to actually be about Nietzsche, I went into it blind and thought the title was an allegory. When Nietzsche was mentioned, I was kinda dissapointed; not expecting it to go well. When however Nietzsche was introduced, I was impressed by how well they handled him.
I felt I learned alot about Nietzsche's philosophy through this book, in a much more digestable way than I probably could have by reading his actual works (I had never planned to, so I'm glad I got a proper introduction to him here).
The lessons taught in this book can be applied to anyone and anyones life. You see things a little differently afterwards, they dont fundamentally alter your life, but it's far better than 95% of all other books.
Josef Breuyer is also a really well written character, even if you get angry at him at times.
All in all it's a good book, well actually a great book. I highly recommend it.
hopeful
informative
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
medium-paced
Yalom blends fact and fiction here. The book is presented as a treatise on the origins of psychotherapy from a fictional encounter and discussions ensued between the 'patient' Nietzsche and the 'doctor' Breuer.Throughout the discussions/treatment their roles are often reversed. The book ends with the discussions offering Nietzsche inspiration for his Thus Spake Zarathustra. This is an interesting book which can be read in a go without any boredom. But it wasn't my type. Probably Breuer, Freud ( appears as a character), Nietzsche and their 'angsts' were too much for me. 3 stars are for the readability and an informative account of earliest modes of psychotherapy treatment, the time frame of which has been altered suit the fictionality.
El planteamiento es muy bueno, pero la trama se hace pesada hacia la segunda mitad, hay diálogos que hacen ver al doctor Breuer muy acartonado, no son verosímiles. Sin embargo en la última cuarta parte la trama se vuelve a levantar y el final envuelve toda la historia en un lindo moño rojo que te deja sintiéndote bien, con ganas de crecer, y con la satisfacción de haber leído un buen libro.
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I liked the book and it was interesting to find out some of it was based on real events, but I found the characters to be unlikeable. It was getting frustrating reading Dr. Breuer sexualizing almost every woman he met and Nietzsche blaming his current state of mind on Salome.
The book had a slow beggining, with Dr. Breuer trying to convinge Nietzsche to be his patient several times, but the following discussions between the two were quite interesting and I found myself submerging in them.
The book had a slow beggining, with Dr. Breuer trying to convinge Nietzsche to be his patient several times, but the following discussions between the two were quite interesting and I found myself submerging in them.
challenging
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
http://nhw.livejournal.com/1044150.html[return][return]I enjoyed this novel, even though I know very little about the philosophical or medical background to it. The year is 1882, the place Vienna; the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche seeks treatment from Josef Breuer, who with his young colleague Sigmund Freud is experimenting with a new "talking cure" for cases of mental illness. Yalom, himself a psychiatrist, is gently didactic about both the earliest days of his own profession and Nietzsche's philosophy, and even manages to work the two into something resembling a plot. A helpful postscript explains which bits of the book are based on established historical fact and which are fictional. Rather a good read.