Reddit reviews When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel Of Obsession (P.S.)

Thanks for posting this lecture introducing his at the time new book When Nietzsche Wept (2011).

In the lecture the story he starts with - the tale of the two healers from Hermann Hesse’s Magister Ludi - who find each other is a great way to start a talk as it kept me listening.

I only have his Existential Psychotherapy and it reads more like a text book. Explaining through prose, or teaching by telling a story, like the book Fish or The Goal is a very entertaining way to learn something and that appears to be what he's doing with When Nietzsche Wept.

Apparently he brings up the tale of the two teachers again later in The Gift of Therapy in 2013.

Perhaps you can see the "will of power" as "will to win". I believe NItzsche says that (for example) you will ask a girl out, not only because you like her, or you feel nice things about her, but also because you want to be together, you shouldn't play just to play but to win! Nitzsche just tries to say that it's ok to want to win, to want to be a better (a stronger) person ("the man be surpassed", "the man is a bridge") not for your parents, society etc. but for yourself.

Of course his philosophy is not just that. In general I think Nitzsche tries to make us settle with the human side of ours, the side that has desires, fears, wishes, which should not be considered sins.

A very nice introduction in Nitzsche's ideas is the book "When Nitzsche wept" https://www.amazon.com/When-Nietzsche-Wept-Novel-Obsession/dp/0062009303