«suspiciousness, sensitiveness, vehemence, and pride...”:
Ibid., vol. 4, p. 506 / “ ,” В§ 28
«Inherited from my father...”: Ibid., vol. 4, p. 506 /
“ ,” В§ 28
Schopenhauer`s precautions and 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
