She would go on to have a distinguished career as both a brilliant woman of letters and a practicing psychoanalyst she would also be known for her close friendship with Freud and for her romantic liaisons, especially with the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke.Īs for the film, I don’t recommend it, but I do point it out.
Nonetheless, the life situation of the major characters is grounded in fact, and the essential components of this novel-Breuer’s mental anguish, Nietzsche’s despair, Anna O., Lou Salomé, Freud’s relationship with Breuer, the ticking embryo of psychotherapy-were all historically in place in 1882.įriedrich Nietzsche had been introduced by Paul Rée to the young Lou Salomé in the spring of 1882 and, over the next months, had had a brief, intense, and chaste love affair with her.
And, of course, psychotherapy was not invented as a result of their encounter. Breuer for treatment.įriedrich Nietzsche and Josef Breuer never met. This book was born in the discovery of a letter: an 1878 message where a friend tries to get Nietzsche to come to Vienna to see Dr. Yet in my reading of Nietzsche, he was deeply and significantly concerned with self-understanding and personal change.”īut history is a series of close calls and what-might-have-beens. The Stanford professor offers this disclaimer in his author’s note: “In 1882, psychotherapy had not yet been born and Nietzsche, of course, never formally turned his attention in that direction. Josef Breuer, nor the details of the overlapping lines of thought in fin-de-siècle Vienna. I didn’t know the beginnings of psychoanalysis with the “talk treatment” of Dr. Let me dissemble no more, gentle reader, I put aside my pressing deadlines to watch it online – and that returns me to Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, and the book. So, on a cheerless weekend night, imagine my surprise to find out the 1992 book has already been made into a 2007 film, starring Armand Assante and Ben Cross. Fun and games with Salomé in 1882: she had rejected proposals from both Rees and Nietzsche.
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