rituals:

Safranski,Schopenhauer, p. 287.

A physician and medical historian suggested...: Iwan

Bloch, «Schopenhauers Krankheit im Jahre 1823»

inMedizinische Klinik, nos. 25‫26 (1906).

«I shall not accept any letters...”: Safranski,Schopenhauer,

p. 240

«commonplace, inane, loathsome, repulsive...”:

Schopenhauer,Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 1, p. 96 / В§

12

«We cannot pass over in silence...”:

Safranski,Schopenhauer, p. 315

«But let him alone...”: Saunders,Complete Essays, book 5,

p. 97. See also Schopenhauer,Parerga and Paralipomena,

vol. 2, p. 647, para. 387

«Seen from the standpoint of youth...”: Ibid., vol. 1, pp.

483‫84 / chap. 6, «On the Different Periods of Life.»

«It means to escape from willing entirely»: See discussion

in Magee,Philosophy of Schopenhauer, pp. 220‫25.

«When a man like me is born...”:

Schopenhauer,Manuscript Remains, vol. 4, p. 510 /

“ ,” В§ 30

«Even in my youth I noticed...”: Ibid., vol. 4, p. 484 /

“ ,” В§ 3

«My life is heroic...”: Ibid., vol. 4, pp. 485‫86 /

“ ,” В§ 4

«I gradually acquired an eye...”: Ibid., vol. 4, p. 492 /

“ ,” В§ 12.

«I am not in my native place...”: Ibid., vol. 4, p. 495 /

“ ,” В§ 17.

«the smaller the personal life...”:

Grisenbach,Schopenhauer`s Gespräche, p. 103.

«Throughout my life I have felt terribly lonely...”:

Schopenhauer,Manuscript Remains, vol. 4, p. 501 /

“ ,” В§ 22

«The best aid for the mind...”: Ibid., vol. 4, p. 499

/ В§ 20

«Whoever seeks peace and quiet...”: Ibid., vol. 4, p. 505

/ В§ 26.

«It is impossible for anyone...”: Ibid., vol. 4, p. 517 /

“ —Maxims and Favourite Passages.»

«When, at times, I felt unhappy...”: Ibid., vol. 4, p. 488 /

“ ,” В§ 8.

«that nothing but the mere form...”: Schopenhauer,World

as Will, vol. 1, p. 315 / В§ 57.

«Where are there any real monogamists?...”:

Saunders,Complete Essays, book 5, p. 86. See also

Schopenhauer,Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 624 /

В§ 370.

«Everyone who is in love...”: Schopenhauer,World as Will,

vol. 2, p. 540 / chap. 44, «The Metaphysics of Sexual

Love.»

«We should treat with indulgence...”:

Schopenhauer,Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 305 /

chap. 11, В§ 156a.

«Some cannot loosen their own chains...”: Nietzsche,Thus

Spake Zarathustra, p. 83. F. Nietzche,Thus Spake

Zarathustra (New York: Penguin Books, 1961), p.83.

Translation modified by Walter Sokel and Irvin Yalom.

«I will wipe my pen and say...”: Magee,Philosophy of

Schopenhauer, p. 25.

«It is not fame...”: Schopenhauer,Parerga and

Paralipomena, vol. 1, pp. 397, 399 / chap. 4, «What a Man

Represents.»

«extracting an obstinate painful thorn...”: Ibid., vol. 1, p.

358 / chap. 4, «What a Man Represents.»

«mouldy film on the surface of the earth...”:

Schopenhauer,World as Will, vol. 2, p. 3 / chap. 1, «On the

Fundamental View of Idealism.»

«A useless disturbing episode...”: Schopenhauer,Parerga

and Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 299 / В§ 156

«Not to pleasure but to painlessness...”:

Schopenhauer,Manuscript Remains, vol. 4, p. 517 /

“ ,”—Maxims and Favourite Passages.»

«everyone must act in life`s great puppet play...”:

Schopenhauer,Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 420 /

В§ 206

«The really proper address...”: Ibid., vol. 2, pp. 304, 305 /

В§ 156, 156a.

«We should treat with indulgence...Schopenhauer,Parerga

and Paralipomena, vol.2, p. 305 / chap. 11, В§ 156a.

«all the literary gossips...”: Magee,Philosophy of

Schopenhauer, p. 26

«If a cat is stroked it purrs...”: Schopenhauer,Parerga and

Paralipomena, vol. 1, p. 353 / chap. 4, «What a Man

Represents.»

«the morning sun of my fame...”:

Schopenhauer,Manuscript Remains, vol. 4, p. 516 /

“ ,” В§ 36

«She works all day at my place...”:

Safranski,Schopenhauer, p. 348.

«At the end of his life, no man...”: Schopenhauer,World as

Will, vol. 1, p. 324 / В§ 59.

«A carpenter does not come up to me...”: Pierre

Hadot,Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises

from Socrates to Foucault, ed. Arnold Davidson, trans.

Michael Chase (Oxford: Blackwell, 1995).

«In the first place a man...”: Schopenhauer,Parerga and

Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 284 / В§ 144

«I can bear the thought...”: Schopenhauer,Manuscript

Remains, vol. 4, p. 393, «Senilia,” В§ 102.

«The life of our bodies...”: Schopenhauer,World as Will,

vol. 1, p. 311 / В§ 57.

«What a difference there is...”: Schopenhauer,Parerga and

Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 288 / В§ 147.

Schopenhauer`s final thoughts on death...:

Safranski,Schopenhauer, p. 348.

«It is absurd to consider nonexistence...”:

Schopenhauer,World as Will, vol. 2, p. 467 / chap. 41, «On

Death and Its Relation to the Indestructibility of Our Inner

Nature.»

«We should welcome it...”: Schopenhauer,Parerga and

Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 322 / В§ 172a.

«If we knocked on the graves...”: Schopenhauer,World as

Will, vol. 2, p. 465 / chap. 41, «On Death and Its Relation

to the Indestructibility of Our Inner Nature.»

The dialogue between two Hellenic philosophers:

Schopenhauer,Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 279 /

В§ 141

«When you say I, I, I...”: Ibid., vol. 2, p. 281 / В§ 141

«I have always hoped to die easily...”:

Schopenhauer,Manuscript Remains, vol. 4, p. 517 /

“ ,” В§ 38

«I now stand weary at the end of the road...”:

Schopenhauer,Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 658 /

«Finale.»

«I am deeply glad to see...”: Magee,Philosophy of

Schopenhauer, p. 25.

«This man who lived among us a lifetime...”: Karl

Pisa,Schopenhauer (Berlin: Paul Neff Verlag, 1977), p. 386

«Mankind has learned...”: Schopenhauer,Manuscript

Remains, vol. 4, p.328, «Spicegia,” В§ 122.

Acknowledgments

This book has had a long gestation and I am indebted to

many who helped along the way. To editors who assisted

me in this odd amalgam of fiction, psychobiography and

psychotherapy pedagogy: Marjorie Braman (a tower of

support and guidance at HarperCollins), Kent Carroll, and

my extraordinary in–house editors—my son, Ben, and my

wife, Marilyn. To many friends and colleagues who read

parts or all of the manuscript and offered suggestions: Van

and Margaret Harvey, Walter Sokel, Ruthellen Josselson,

Carolyn Zaroff, Murray Bilmes, Julius Kaplan, Scott

Wood, Herb Kotz, Roger Walsh, Saul Spiro, Jean Rose,

Helen Blau, David Spiegel. To my support group of fellow

therapists who, throughout this project, offered unwavering

friendship and sustenance. To my amazing and

multitalented agent, Sandy Dijkstra, who among other

contributions suggested the title (as she did for my

preceding book,The Gift of Therapy ). To my research

assistant, Geri Doran.

Much of the Schopenhauer correspondence that

exists either remains untranslated or has been clumsily

rendered into English. I am indebted to my German

research assistants, Markus Buergin and Felix Reuter, for

their translation services and their prodigious library

research. Walter Sokel offered exceptional intellectual

guidance and helped translate many of the Schopenhauer

epigrams preceding each chapter into English that more

reflects Schopenhauer`s powerful and lucid prose.

In this work, as in all others, my wife, Marilyn,

served as a pillar of support and love.

Many fine books guided me in my writing. By far, I

am most heavily indebted to Rudiger Safranski`s

magnificent biography,Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of

Philosophy (Harvard University Press, 1989) and grateful

to him for his generous consultation in our long

conversation in a Berlin cafГ©. The idea of bibliotherapy—

curing oneself through reading the entire corpus of

philosophy—comes from Bryan Magee`s excellent

book,Confessions of a Philosopher (New York: Modern

Library, 1999). Other works that informed me were Bryan

Magee`sThe Philosophy of Schopenhauer (Oxford:

Clarendon Press, 1983; revised 1997; John E.

Atwell`sSchopenhauer: The Human Character

(Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990); Christopher

Janeway`sSchopenhauer (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford Univ.

Press, 1994); Ben–Ami Scharfstein`sThe Philosophers:

Their Lives and the Nature of their Thought (New York:

Oxford University Press, 1989); Patrick

Gardiner`sSchopenhauer (Saint Augustine`s Press, 1997);

Edgar Saltus`sThe Philosophy of Disenchantment (New

York: Peter Eckler Publishing Co., 1885); Christopher

Janeway`sThe Cambridge Companion to Schopenhauer

(Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999);

Michael Tanner`sSchopenhauer (New York: Routledge,

1999); Frederick Copleston`sArthur Schopenhauer:

Philosopher of Pessimism (Andover, UK: Chapel River

Press, 1946); Alain de Botton`sThe Consolations of

Philosophy (New York: Vintage, 2001); Peter

Raabe`sPhilosophical Counseling (Westport, Conn.:

Praeger); Shlomit C. Schuster`sPhilosophy Practice: An

Alternative to Counseling and Psychotherapy (Westport,

Conn.: Praeger, 1999); Lou Marinoff`sPlato Not Prozac

(New York: HarperCollins, 1999); Pierre Hadot and Arnold

I. Davidson, eds.,Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual

Exercises from Socrates to Foucault (Michael Chase,

trans., New Haven: Blackwell, 1995); Martha

Nussbaum`sThe Therapy of Desire (Princeton, N.J.:

Princeton Univ. Press, 1994); Alex Howard`sPhilosophy

for Counseling and Psychotherapy: Pythagoras to

Postmodernism (London: Macmillan, 2000).

About the Author

IRVIN D. YALOM is the bestselling author ofLove`s

Executioner, Momma and the Meaning of Life, andThe Gift

of Therapy, as well as several classic textbooks on

psychotherapy, including the monumental work that has

long been the standard text in the field,The Theory and

Practice of Group Psychotherapy.

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