When Nietzsche Wept by Yalom Irvin D

Author:Yalom, Irvin D. [Yalom, Irvin D.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2013-04-22T16:00:00+00:00

Excerpts from Dr. Breuer’s Case Notes on Eckart Müller, 5 December 1882

An excellent beginning! Much accomplished He developed a list of my problems and plans to focus on one at a time. Good. Let him think this is what we are doing. To encourage him to confess, I bared myself today. He did not reciprocate but, in time, it will come. Certainly he was astounded, and impressed, by my openness.

I have an interesting tactical idea! I shall describe his situation as if it were my own. Then I let him counsel me and, in so doing, he will silently counsel himself. Thus, for example, I can help him work on his triangle—with Lou Salomé and Paul Rée—by asking for help with my triangle with Bertha and her new doctor. He is so secretive that this may be the only way to help him. Perhaps he will never be honest enough to ask for help directly.

He has an original mind. I cannot predict his responses. Perhaps Lou Salomé is right; perhaps he is destined to be a great philosopher. As long as he avoids the subject of human beings! In most aspects of human relatedness he has prodigious blind spots. But when it comes to the subject of women, he is barbaric, hardly human. No matter who the woman or what the situation, his response is predictable: the woman is predatory and scheming. And his advice about women is equally predictable: blame them, punish them! Oh yes, one other mode—avoid them!

As for sexual feelings: Does he have any at aff? Does he view women as too dangerous? He must have sexual desire. But what happens to it? Is it dammed up, exerting pressure that must somehow burst out? Can that be, I wonder, the source of the migraine?

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