Und Nietzsche weinte by Irvin D. Yalom

Und Nietzsche weinte

Irvin D. Yalom with Uda Strätling (Translator)

442 pages first pub 1992 (view editions)

fiction historical philosophy psychology challenging reflective slow-paced
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A reader who delights in watching fin-de-siècle Vienna’s most combustible minds—Lou Andreas-Salomé, Josef Breuer, and Friedrich Nietzsche—locked in a slow-burning psychological duel over love, despair, and an experimental cure will savor this novel’s uniquely staged confrontation between philosophy and the birth of psychoanalysis.

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Eine Ménage à trois zwischen Lou Andreas Salomé, Nietzsche und der Psychoanalyse Das Wien des Fin de siècle: Die selbstbewusste junge Russin Lou Andreas Salomé drängt den angesehenen Arzt Josef Breuer, dem suizidgefährdeten Friedrich Nietzsche ...

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challenging: 41%

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