Sigmund Freud makes some brief appearances in the story and he is young and cool, very different from the Sigmund Freud that we imagine. The main relationship between Breuer and Nietzsche is fictional though. It is clear that Irvin Yalom has done his research well. Most of the characters and their relationships described in it are real. ‘ When Nietzsche Wept‘ is a historical novel. There are two patients in our sessions and, of the two, I am the more urgent case.” What happens after that forms the rest of the story. At one point Breuer says – “ There is no longer any point in deceiving myself. Nietzsche proves that not for nothing is he known as a great philosopher. Of course, if you make a deal like this with Nietzsche, things won’t go according to plan. Breuer will help Nietzsche with the physical aspects of his illness, like migraine, and in return Nietzsche will help Breuer in finding meaning in his life and find answers to the big questions.
Nietzsche is reluctant to accept a long duration treatment. This woman through the help of friends convinces Nietzsche to meet Dr.Breuer. She tells him that one of her closest friends is a philosopher called Friedrich Nietzsche and he is suffering from a serious illness and she’d like Dr.Breuer to help him. After some initial reluctance he agrees to meet her. The famous Viennese doctor Josef Breuer is holidaying in Venice with his wife when a woman requests a meeting with him on an important matter. Yalom’s ‘ When Nietzsche Wept‘ through a friend’s recommendation. In When Nietzsche Wept, Irvin Yalom blends fact and fiction, atmosphere and suspense, to unfold an unforgettable story about the redemptive power of friendship.I discovered Irvin D. Only through facing his own inner demons can the gifted healer begin to help his patient. When he agrees to treat Nietzsche with his experimental “talking cure,” Breuer never expects that he too will find solace in their sessions. Friedrich Nietzsche, Europe's greatest philosopher, is on the brink of suicidal despair, unable to find a cure for the headaches and other ailments that plague him. Josef Breuer, one of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis, is at the height of his career. In nineteenth-century Vienna, a drama of love, fate, and will is played out amid the intellectual ferment that defined the era. From the acclaimed author of Love's Executioner and Schopenhauer’s Couch, comes a “fascinating…shrewd intellectual thriller” (Los Angeles Times Book Review) about pioneering Viennese psychoanalyst Josef Breuer and his intriguing patient-Friedrich Nietzsche
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