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The Schopenhauer Cure

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by Irvin D. Yalom


  ed., Journal of the Schopenhauer Society, 1912-1944, trans.

  Felix Reuter, Frankfurt: n.p. 1973, p. 128.

  "Most men allow themselves to be seduced...":

  Schopenhauer, Manuscript Remains, vol. 4, p. 504 /

  "

  ," SS 25. Trans. modified by Felix Reuter

  and Irvin Yalom.

  "Great sufferings render lesser ones...":

  Schopenhauer, World as Will, vol. 1, p. 316 / SS 57. Trans.

  modified by Walter Sokel and Irvin Yalom.

  "Nothing can alarm or move him any more...": Ibid., vol.

  1, p. 390/ SS 68.

  "One must have chaos...": Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke

  Zarathustra, trans. R. J. Hollingdale (New York: Penguin, 1961), p. 46

  "The flower replied:...": Schopenhauer, Parerga and

  Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 649 / chap. 314 SS 388."

  "The cheerfulness and buoyancy of our youth...": Ibid.,

  vol. 1, p. 483 / chap. 6, "On the Different Periods of Life."

  "half mad through excesses...": Arthur Hubscher, Arthur

  Schopenhauer: Ein Lebensbild. Dritte Auflage,

  durchgesehen von Angelika Hubscher, mit einer Abbildung

  und zwei Handschriftproben. (Mannheim: F. A. Brockhaus, 1988), S. 12

  "little though I care for stiff etiquette...":

  Safranski, Schopenhauer, p. 40

  "I only wish you had learned...": Ibid., p. 40

  "Next to the picture were...": Ibid., p. 42

  "I find that a panorama from a high mountain...": Ibid., p.

  51.

  "Philosophy is a high mountain road...":

  Schopenhauer, Manuscript Remains, vol. 1, p. 14 / SS 20

  "We entered a room of carousing servants...":

  Safranski, Schopenhauer, p. 51.

  "The strident singing of the multitude..." and subsequent

  quotations in this paragraph: Ibid., p. 43

  "I am sorry that your stay...": Ibid., p. 45

  "Every time I went out among men...":

  Schopenhauer, Manuscript Remains, vol. 4, p. 512 /

  "

  ," SS 32

  "Be sure your objective judgments...":

  Safranski, Schopenhauer, p. 167

  "He is a happy man...": Saunders, Complete Essays, book 2, p. 63. See also Schopenhauer, Parerga and

  Paralipomena, vol. 1, p. 445 / chap. 5, "Counsels and

  Maxims."

  "Sex does not hesitate to intrude...": Schopenhauer, World as Will, vol. 2, p. 533 / chap. 44, "The Metaphysics of Sexual Love."

  "Obit anus, abit onus...": Bryan Magee, The Philosophy of

  Schopenhauer (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983; revised

  1997), p. 13, footnote.

  "Industrious whore": Safranski, Schopenhauer, p. 66

  "I was very fond of them...": Ibid., p. 67

  "But I didn't want them, you see...": Arthur Schopenhauer:

  Gesprache. Herausgegeben von Arthur Hubscher. Neue,

  stark erweiterte Ausg. Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, 1971, p. 58.

  Trans. by Felix Reuter.

  "May you not totally lose the ability...":

  Safranski, Schopenhauer, p. 245

  "For a woman, limitation to one man...": Ibid., p. 271

  "Man at one time has too much...": Ibid., p. 271

  "All great poets were unhappily married...":

  Schopenhauer, Manuscript Remains, vol. 4, p. 505 /

  "

  ," SS 25

  To marry at a late age...: Schopenhauer, Manuscript

  Remains, vol. 4, p. 504 /

  SS 24.

  "Next to the love of life...": Schopenhauer, World as Will, vol. 2, p. 513 / chap. 42, "Life of the Species."

  "If we consider all this...": Ibid., vol. 2, p. 534 / chap. 44, "The Metaphysics of Sexual Love."

  "The true end of the whole love story...": Ibid., vol. 2, p.

  535 / chap. 44, "The Metaphysics of Sexual Love."

  "Therefore what here guides man...": Ibid., vol. 2, p. 539 /

  chap. 44, "The Metaphysics of Sexual Love."

  "The man is taken possession of by the spirit...": Ibid., vol.

  2, pp. 554, 555 / chap. 44, "The Metaphysics of Sexual

  Love."

  "For he is under the influence...": Ibid., vol. 2, p. 556 /

  chap. 44, "The Metaphysics of Sexual Love."

  "What is not endowed with reason...": Ibid., vol. 2, p. 557 /

  chap. 44, "The Metaphysics of Sexual Love."

  "If I maintain silence about my secret...":

  Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 1, p. 466 /

  chap. 5, "Counsels and Maxims."

  "If we do not want to be a plaything...":

  Schopenhauer, Manuscript Remains, vol. 4, p. 499 /

  "

  ," SS 20

  "If you have an earnest desire...": Epictetus: Discourses

  and Enchiridion , trans. Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  (New York: Walter J. Black, 1944), p. 338.

  "By the time I was thirty...": Schopenhauer, Manuscript

  Remains, vol. 4, p. 513 / "

  ," SS 33

  "One cold winter's day...": Schopenhauer, Parerga and

  Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 651 / SS 396.

  "Yet whoever has a great deal of internal warmth...": Ibid.,

  vol. 2, p. 652 / SS 396.

  "highest class of mankind": Schopenhauer, Manuscript

  Remains, vol. 4, p. 498 / "

  ," SS 20

  "My intellect belonged not to me...": Ibid., vol. 4, p. 484 /

  "

  ," SS 3.

  "Young Schopenhauer seems to have changed...":

  Safranski, Schopenhauer, p. 120.

  "Your friend, our great Goethe...": Ibid., p. 177.

  "We discussed a good many things...": Ibid., p. 190

  "But the genius lights on his age...": Schopenhauer, World as Will, vol. 2, p. 390 / chap. 31, "On Genius."

  "If in daily intercourse we are asked...":

  Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 268 /

  SS 135

  "It is better not to speak...": Schopenhauer, Manuscript

  Remains, vol. 4, p. 512 / "

  ," SS 32

  "miserable wretches, of limited intelligence...": Ibid., vol.

  4, p. 501 / "

  ," SS 22.

  "Almost every contact with men...": Ibid., vol. 4, p. 508 /

  "

  ," SS 29.

  "Do not tell a friend what your enemy...":

  Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 1, p. 466 /

  chap. 5, "Counsels and Maxims."

  "Regard all personal affairs as secrets...": Ibid., vol. 1, p.

  465 / chap. 5 "Counsels and Maxims."

  "Giving way neither to love nor to hate...": Ibid., vol. 1, p.

  466/ chap. 5, "Counsels and Maxims."

  "Distrust is the mother of safety..."

  Schopenhauer, Manuscript Remains, vol. 4, p. 495 /

  "

  ," SS 17

  "To forget at any time the bad traits...":

  Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 1, p. 466/

  chap. 5, "Counsels and Maxims."

  "The only way to attain superiority...": Saunders, Complete Essays, book 2, p. 72. See also Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 1, p. 451 / SS 28.

  "To disregard is to win regard": Ibid., p. 72. See also

  Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena, vol.1, p. 451 / SS

  28

  "If we really think highly...": Ibid., p. 72. See also

  Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena, vol.1, p. 451 / SS

  28

  "Better to let men be what they are...":

  Schopenhauer, Manuscript Remains, vol. 4, p. 508 /

  "

  ," SS 29, footnote.

  "We must never show anger and hatred...":

  Schopenhauer, Parerga and Pa
ralipomena, vol. 1, p. 466 /

  chap. 5, "Counsels and Maxims."

  "By being polite and friendly...": Ibid., p. 463

  "There are few ways by which...": Schopenhauer, Parerga

  and Paralipomena, vol. 1, p. 459 / chap. 5, "Counsels and Maxims."

  "We should set a limit to our wishes...": Ibid., vol. 1, p.

  438 / chap. 5, "Counsels and Maxims."

  "No rose without a thorn...": Saunders, Complete Essays,

  book 5, p. 97. See also Schopenhauer, Parerga and

  Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 648 / SS 385

  Bodies are material objects...: See discussion in

  Magee, Philosophy of Schopenhauer, pp. 440-53

  "Every place we look in life...": Schopenhauer, World as

  Will, vol. 1, p. 309 / SS 56.

  "Work, worry, toil and trouble...": Schopenhauer, Parerga

  and Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 293 / SS 152

  "In the first place a man never is happy...":

  Saunders, Complete Essays, book 5, p. 21. See also

  Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 284 /

  SS 144.

  "We are like lambs playing in the field...":

  Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 292 /

  SS 150

  "I have not written for the crowd...":

  Schopenhauer, Manuscript Remains, vol. 4, p. 207 /

  "Pandectae II," SS 84

  "A man finds himself...": Saunders, Complete Essays, book 5, p. 19. See also Schopenhauer, Parerga and

  Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 283 / SS 143.

  "When, on a sea voyage...": Epictetus, Discourses and

  Enchiridion, p. 334.

  "Life can be compared to a piece of embroidered

  material...": Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena,

  vol. 1, p. 482 / chap. 6, "On the Different Periods of Life."

  "Even when there is no particular provocation...":

  Schopenhauer, Manuscript Remains, vol. 4, p. 507 /

  "

  ," SS 28

  Schopenhauer's daily schedule: Magee, Philosophy of

  Schopenhauer, p. 24

  Schopenhauer's table talk: Safranski, Schopenhauer, p. 284.

  The gold piece for the poor: Arthur Hubscher,

  ed., Schopenhauer's Anekdotenbuchlein (Frankfurt, 1981), p. 58. Trans. Felix Reuter and Irvin Yalom.

  Many anecdotes of his sharp wit...: Ibid.

  "Well built...invariably well dressed...":

  Safranski, Schopenhauer, p. 284.

  "The risk of living without work...":

  Schopenhauer, Manuscript Remains, vol. 4, p. 503 /

  "

  ," SS 24

  "Two months in your room...": Safranski, Schopenhauer, p.

  288

  "The monuments, the ideas left behind...":

  Schopenhauer, Manuscript Remains, vol. 4, p. 487 /

  "

  ," SS 7

  "To the learned men and philosophers of Europe...": Ibid.,

  vol. 4, p. 121 / "Cholera-Buch," SS 40.

  "suspiciousness, sensitiveness, vehemence, and pride...":

  Ibid., vol. 4, p. 506 / "

  ," SS 28

  "Inherited from my father...": Ibid., vol. 4, p. 506 /

  "

  ," SS 28

  Schopenhauer's precautions and rituals:

  Safranski, Schopenhauer, p. 287.

  A physician and medical historian suggested...: Iwan

  Bloch, "Schopenhauers Krankheit im Jahre 1823"

  in Medizinische Klinik, nos. 25-26 (1906).

  "I shall not accept any letters...": Safranski, Schopenhauer, p. 240

  "commonplace, inane, loathsome, repulsive...":

  Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 1, p. 96 / SS

  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.

  483-84 / chap. 6, "On the Different Periods of Life."

  "It means to escape from willing entirely": See discussion

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

  "When a man like me is born...":

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

  "

  ," SS 30

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

  "

  ," SS 3

  "My life is heroic...": Ibid., vol. 4, pp. 485-86 /

  "

  ," SS 4

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

  "

  ," SS 12.

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

  "

  ," SS 17.

  "the smaller the personal life...":

  Grisenbach, Schopenhauer's Gesprache, p. 103.

  "Throughout my life I have felt terribly lonely...":

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

  "

  ," SS 22

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

  /

  SS 20

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

  /

  SS 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 /

  "

  ," SS 8.

  "that nothing but the mere form...": Schopenhauer, World

  as Will, vol. 1, p. 315 / SS 57.

  "Where are there any real monogamists?...":

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

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

  SS 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, SS 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 / SS 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 /

  SS 206

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

  SS 156, 156a.

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

  and Paralipomena, vol.2, p. 305 / chap. 11, SS 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

  Represe
nts."

  "the morning sun of my fame...":

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

  "

  ," SS 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 / SS 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 / SS 144

  "I can bear the thought...": Schopenhauer, Manuscript

  Remains, vol. 4, p. 393, "Senilia," SS 102.

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

  vol. 1, p. 311 / SS 57.

  "What a difference there is...": Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 288 / SS 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 / SS 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 /

  SS 141

  "When you say I, I, I...": Ibid., vol. 2, p. 281 / SS 141

  "I have always hoped to die easily...":

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

  "

  ," SS 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," SS 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

 

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