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- The film is largely fictional, though many facts and actually occurring events are taken from the characters' real lives and inserted into the film for narrative purposes.
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When Nietzsche Wept is a 1992 novel by Irvin D. Yalom, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University, an existentialist, and psychotherapist. The book takes place mostly in Vienna, Austria, in the year 1882, and relates a fictional meeting between the doctor Josef Breuer and the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
When Nietzsche Wept (German: Als Nietzsche Weinte) is a 2007 American art drama film directed by Pinchas Perry and starring Armand Assante, Ben Cross and Katheryn Winnick. It is based on the novel of the same name by Irvin D. Yalom. It was filmed in Bulgaria.
But history is a series of close calls and what-might-have-beens. 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. Breuer for treatment. Author Yalom continues: Friedrich Nietzsche and Josef Breuer never met.
Aug 3, 1992 · Freud's mentor, Josef Breuer, attempts to cure Friedrich Nietzsche of suicidal despair in the clinics, cemeteries, and coffeehouses of 19th-century Vienna—in this first novel by the author of the bestselling Love's Executioner: an entertaining and highly original tale of an uncompromising friendship between two brilliant men.
- Kirkus Reviews
May 6, 2018 · When Nietzsche Wept in a nutshell. The novel tells the story of an unusual doctor-patient relationship in the 19th-century Vienna between Joseph Breuer, one of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis, and Friedrich Nietzsche, one of the great philosophers of Europe.
Breuer, Freud’s mentor and the discoverer of the psychoanalytic ‘talking cure’, is acutely depressed; Nietzsche, the as yet unknown philosopher, suffers from debilitating migraines. Nietzsche seeks to teach Breuer about ‘freedom’ by which he means a sort of resignation to one’s fate.
Only through facing his own inner demons can the gifted healer begin to help his patient. In When Nietzsche Wept, Irvin Yalom blends fact and fiction, atmosphere and suspense, to unfold an unforgettable story about the redemptive power of friendship.
- Irvin D. Yalom
