"Anything that didn't kill me made me stronger." "You are a lonely freak today, you live in isolation, and one day you will become a nation."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, the original of the aforementioned classic quote, was a genius known as the "madman". At the age of 24 he became Professor of Classical Philology in the German-speaking region of the University of Basel, Switzerland, a philosopher, linguist, cultural critic, poet, composer, and thinker.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
When Nietzsche Wept is a psychotherapeutic novel based on Nietzsche and written by Owen Yaron. The book is based on two masters at the end of the 19th century, Nietzsche and Brehr, and opens a remarkable philosophical conversation story based on historical facts that rationally fictionalize the two doctors and patients.
When Nietzsche Wept
Owen Yalong, one of the most famous, widely circulated and influential psychotherapeutic masters in the world today, has been selected as one of the three most important psychotherapists in the United States to date, and is one of the three representative figures of american group psychotherapy authority, psychiatric master, and existential therapy. Many of his books have not only inspired psychotherapists, but have also been loved by ordinary readers and have been successfully distributed worldwide. His work has won several awards in the European and American fiction and nonfiction categories, and When Nietzsche Weeps won the 1992 Commonwealth Club Gold Medal award in the novel category, as well as many other awards, and has been translated into 24 languages, appearing on many of the best best-seller lists, and selling more than 2 million copies.
Owen Yaron
Companionship and listening are a kind of recognition and perceived presence from the outside.
Geniuses are either crazy or world leaders. Both are lonely, but neither undefeated nor vulnerable.
We think that Nietzsche must be an independent, arrogant and isolated person, but this is not the case. He was in a coma due to a severe migraine, and the few words "help me, help me" in his unconscious state were really surprising and painful. His heart may also be trying to break free of a certain kind of cage, which must be a shackle that ordinary people cannot tolerate.
Nietzsche said: "You are a lonely freak today, you live in isolation, and one day you will become a nation." ”
After the ultimate loneliness, the perception can also be calm. He had many unfortunate evolutions of armor, and his consistently strong beliefs.
If you are not ready to be a "people", when you feel lonely, let go of yourself and let the people around you embrace you. May you endure true loneliness and the company of a toast. Be alone when you're alone, and hug your friends when you need to listen.
"I learned that the key to a pleasant life is to choose what is necessary first, and then to love what is chosen."
Dr. Brehr is a respected doctor with a successful career and a happy family. But he's always had a headache for his current life and falls in love with his patient, Bertha.
The contradiction of people to middle age is dissatisfaction with the present, and the vent of dissatisfaction is often others rather than themselves. This is also why Brehr has been putting the breakthrough on the patient Bertha, while facing his wife like a stranger.
The inner escape, as if it were the moon and sixpence, thought that the best was always in the distance, and it was good to flee, but I did not know that this escape was also the beginning of the next escape.
Fortunately, he used hypnosis to avoid all risks and returned to his own life. When we look up at the moon, we occasionally look down at the sixpence around us.
A trip that goes, a desperate nuance, and hopefully we make the right choice after seeing everything.
Human bravery is not limited to the fact that, like Nietzsche, he left everything in life and stood outside of life. May we all have the courage of Mr. Brehr to look directly at our own choices and then reconcile with ourselves and love our choices. It's also a kind of bravery.
The book's review of the counseling relationship, as well as the transformative power and key moments in the treatment process, is very well described. Through the intersection of Nietzsche and Brehr, the author tells about the genres and therapeutic techniques of psychology, including hypnosis, behavioral therapy, Gestalt therapy, etc., covering a wide range of topics, including midlife crisis, female consciousness, marriage problems, manipulation and demand, emotional blackmail, self-exploration, and real-world problems.
In Nietzsche's conversation therapy with Brehr, perhaps we can all see our own shadow. The stubbornness and attachment in life are all the same, and it is not so much that reading this book makes us learn something, but that this book allows us to learn to talk to ourselves. Between Nietzsche and Dr. Brehr's questions and answers, there is always something to enlighten you. Views on marriage, ideas about dreams, understanding of life...
Leave some time, leave some solitude, flip through the book, and when Nietzsche and Brel begin to talk about therapy, you are the shadow of their conversation.
Nietzsche's loneliness and choice to be lonely, choose to think, Dr. Breyer, after seeing the truth of life, still loves to go all out. No matter who it is, it will make XiaoBa think about it, and maybe you also need to encounter such a good book.
On World Book Day, April 23, I would like to talk to you about such a book, "When Nietzsche Wept.".