When Nietzsche Wept

00:31:05,263 --> 00:31:07,060 You saved my life. 476 00:31:10,068 --> 00:31:12,229 I'm just a writer. 477 00:31:15,039 --> 00:31:16,438 I'm not a doctor. 478 00:31:20,845 --> 00:31:23,746 You can pay your debt by saving my life. 479 00:31:23,815 --> 00:31:25,976 <i>The way I saved yours.</i> 480 00:31:31,022 --> 00:31:32,216 So what? 481 00:31:32,290 --> 00:31:36,386 I do this for you to... 482 00:31:36,461 --> 00:31:37,485 relieve my debt? 483 00:31:39,998 --> 00:31:42,694 My motivation... 484 00:31:42,767 --> 00:31:45,201 is entirely self-serving. 485 00:31:47,372 --> 00:31:52,002 I want to save my life, 486 00:31:52,076 --> 00:31:54,806 but are you strong enough to do this? 487 00:32:07,425 --> 00:32:08,949 <i>I will persuade him</i> 488 00:32:09,027 --> 00:32:13,862 that he is the only one who can help me. 489 00:32:13,932 --> 00:32:15,092 And then what? 490 00:32:15,166 --> 00:32:17,930 Then I will reverse the roles. 491 00:32:18,002 --> 00:32:19,799 He will once again be the patient 492 00:32:19,871 --> 00:32:21,998 and I will be the physician. 493 00:32:22,073 --> 00:32:24,041 And what happens when N ietzsche 494 00:32:24,108 --> 00:32:26,269 turns to you to cure his despair? 495 00:32:26,344 --> 00:32:29,836 Siggy, I'm convinced there's something healing in unburdening. 496 00:32:29,914 --> 00:32:31,609 Look at the Oatholics. 497 00:32:31,683 --> 00:32:35,084 Their priests have been offering confessions for centuries. 498 00:32:35,153 --> 00:32:38,748 N ietzsche is a solitary man. 499 00:32:38,823 --> 00:32:41,519 Yet a few nights ago 500 00:32:41,592 --> 00:32:44,288 he opened up to me. 501 00:32:44,362 --> 00:32:45,989 A real plea for help. 502 00:32:46,064 --> 00:32:47,326 Help me. 503 00:32:47,398 --> 00:32:51,095 What you saw were his unconscious desires. 504 00:32:51,169 --> 00:32:53,933 Those that if they were liberated could scream 505 00:32:54,005 --> 00:32:55,996 for help in daylight. 506 00:32:56,074 --> 00:32:57,939 The goal of my talking cure 507 00:32:58,009 --> 00:33:00,034 is to liberate those buried desires, 508 00:33:00,111 --> 00:33:06,846 to allow the patient to ask for help... openly. 509 00:33:06,918 --> 00:33:09,182 But is "liberation" the right term? 510 00:33:09,253 --> 00:33:12,780 Isn't it "integration" that we are after? 511 00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:20,824 I ntegration of the unconscious with the conscious. 512 00:33:20,898 --> 00:33:22,160 Yes! 513 00:33:26,537 --> 00:33:27,504 Yes, Sigmund! 514 00:33:40,952 --> 00:33:41,941 Very good. 515 00:33:51,362 --> 00:33:52,294 Take a seat. 516 00:33:58,603 --> 00:34:00,366 Remove your stethoscope. 517 00:34:03,841 --> 00:34:05,365 And your coat. 518 00:34:05,443 --> 00:34:06,842 <i>As well.</i> 519 00:34:19,690 --> 00:34:21,555 <i>I made a list of your complaints.</i> 520 00:34:21,626 --> 00:34:24,151 One, you have a general unhappiness. 521 00:34:24,228 --> 00:34:28,460 <i>Two, you're besieged by alien thoughts.</i> 522 00:34:28,533 --> 00:34:30,228 <i>Three, self-hatred.</i> 523 00:34:30,301 --> 00:34:33,964 <i>Four, fear of aging. Five, fear of death.</i> 524 00:34:34,038 --> 00:34:38,338 <i>Six, urges toward suicide.</i> 525 00:34:38,409 --> 00:34:39,569 Anything else? 526 00:34:39,644 --> 00:34:44,604 I feel... 527 00:34:44,682 --> 00:34:46,775 completely... 528 00:34:46,851 --> 00:34:48,682 remote and distant from my wife. 529 00:34:48,753 --> 00:34:51,745 <i>Trapped in a world not of my own choosing.</i> 530 00:34:51,823 --> 00:34:55,657 And is that one more problem or two? 531 00:34:57,628 --> 00:34:59,095 You make me feel uncomfortable. 532 00:34:59,163 --> 00:35:01,256 It is my task to make you feel comfortless. 533 00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:03,360 No, no, no. Your approach is all wrong. 534 00:35:03,434 --> 00:35:04,867 M r. Breuer, we made an agreement. 535 00:35:08,673 --> 00:35:10,334 "M r." Breuer? 536 00:35:13,411 --> 00:35:17,074 Do you want us to proceed, M r. Breuer? 537 00:35:30,728 --> 00:35:32,787 <i>You've mentioned your wife last.</i> 538 00:35:32,864 --> 00:35:34,661 Which tells me it begins there. 539 00:35:34,732 --> 00:35:37,633 <i>What initiated this change...</i> 540 00:35:37,702 --> 00:35:39,067 in your feelings toward her? 541 00:35:44,142 --> 00:35:46,667 Two years ago I took on the case of a young woman. 542 00:35:46,744 --> 00:35:50,976 This patient - I gave her the pseudonym Anna O... 543 00:35:51,048 --> 00:35:55,508 <i>Suffers from what we doctors call hysterical behavior.</i> 544 00:35:57,021 --> 00:35:59,353 Try to stay calm! 545 00:35:59,423 --> 00:36:02,119 <i>During our daily meetings, she...</i> 546 00:36:02,193 --> 00:36:05,924 <i>opened up to me. She had the details of every disturbing event</i> 547 00:36:05,997 --> 00:36:07,988 <i