Zweig's Struggle with the Daemon is a good starting point to understand the tormented souls. Holderlin and Nietzsche became mad Kleist committed suicide. It is a scandal that we still lack what in The Divided Self Laing called a "science of the persons". This category error permeates the academia (to understand concrete people it's necessary a subjective or an empathetic history of these people). Unfortunately, by pretending to approach the subject of the human psyche on the basis of abstract principles, psychoanalysis, academic psychology and psychiatry usurped the study of the inner self and approached the human soul from the impossible viewpoint of objectivism. I have read quite a few of Stefan Zweig books, but his study of Holderlin, Kleist, and Nietzsche in The Struggle with the Daemon ("Daimon" in the older 1930s editions) is the most insightful of all.Īfter Romanticism the genre of confessional autobiography cropped up.
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