Irvin D. Yalom
tears Nietzsche
It 's a day in October of 1882 and Josef Breuer, forty brilliant psychiatrist, medical staff in Vienna of artists and philosophers such as Brahms, Bruck and Brentano, is the Cafe Sorrento in the company of a young woman who does not know, but who had the gall to convene in the famous Venetian coffee for a "" matter of extreme urgency where it should be as much as "the future of philosophy German. "
The woman called Lou Salomé and is of unusual beauty, face powerful, strong chin, sculpted, bright blue eyes, full lips and sexy, silver-blond hair tied back in a bun that lazily leave the ears uncovered, and the long graceful neck. Although the pungent
temperature in the morning, took off the mantle of fur and looking directly in the eye with a firm voice told him to fear for the life of a dear friend, Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher, according to Richard Wagner , has "given the world a work without equal." Then, resting lightly on his gloved hand, he added that the philosopher is in the throes a deep prostration. A state which manifests itself with an impressive variety of symptoms: headache, partial blindness, nausea, insomnia, fever, anorexia, and that led him to take dangerous doses of morphine ...
Thus, through the voice of the muse of the fin de siècle Vienna, Josef Breuer, physician estimated jew, the future father of psychoanalysis, a man of irreproachable conduct, and yet also burdened by the bonds and the conventions of bourgeois life and marriage and deeply troubled by the beautiful Bertha, his patient for two years, learns of the extreme desperation of the man who will become his most famous patient. Breuer, in fact, submit the philosopher to his care, based on the belief that the healing of the body passes through the soul. And between him and Nietzsche, in the course of several sessions, we will establish a close dialogue and engaging during which Breuer will try in vain to get to the root of the dark evil of the philosopher and cause him to open his heart. Only at the end, will have the decisive idea: assume the role of the patient and confessing torments, pains and concerns of Nietzsche, will succeed in breaking the impenetrable isolation and provoke in him a release emotional catharsis.
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