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When Nietzsche Wept

by Irvin Yalom

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When Nietzsche Wept is a 1992 novel by Irvin D. Yalom. 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. The novel is a review of the history of philosophy and psychoanalysis and some of the main personalities of the last decades of the 19th century, and revolves around the topic of "limerence".

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