On Apr 3, 5:34 am, "Somebody" <N/A> wrote:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENl4JK6LJ0Y&feature=related
Mental breakdown and death (1889-1900)
A photo by Hans Olde from the photographic series "The Ill Nietzsche",
summer of 1899.
On January 3, 1889, Nietzsche exhibited signs of a serious mental
illness. Two policemen approached him after he caused a public
disturbance in the streets of Turin. What actually happened remains
unknown, but the often-repeated tale states that Nietzsche witnessed
the whipping of a horse at the other end of the Piazza Carlo Alberto,
ran to the horse, threw his arms up around the horse's neck to protect
it, and collapsed to the ground. The first dream-sequence from
Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment (Part 1, Chapter 5) has just such a
scene in which Raskolnikov witnesses the whipping of a horse around
the eyes. Incidentally, Nietzsche called Dostoevsky "the only
psychologist from whom I have anything to learn."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHjWDCX1Bdw
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