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When Nietzsche Wept
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When Nietzsche Wept

A Novel Of Obsession

by Irvin D. Yalom

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@TeresaRJ3 He was a bundle of contradictions... read: When Nietzsche Wept. Great book. | An imagined story of early psychoanalysis about a guy who was a predecessor to Freud.

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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Psychoanalysis, Most Recommended Books, and Philosophy.

From bestselling author Irv Yalom comes a riveting blend of fact and fiction, a drama of love, fate, and will, played out agains the intellectual ferment of nineteenthcentury Vienna on the eve of the birth of psychoanalysis.Friedrich Nietzsche, Europe's greatest philosopher ...Josef Breuer, one of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis ...a secret...

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