Migraine: The Eternal Return
By Jack Sholl
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An intellectual and witty depiction of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche as he simultaneously grapples with the idea of eternal return and his endlessly recurring migraine headache. This comical one-act play featuring a man suffering from a constant, intolerable headache serves as a great introduction to Friedrich Nietzsche for those who have heard of him and are interested in getting to know a little bit more about the renown German philosopher. For those who have already studied his works, this is an invitation to discover the more human aspects of the man who invented the concept of the Overman. A fictional treatment based on historical research, this is a sprightly, text addition to any true philosophers library.
Jack Sholl
Jack Sholl is a former journalist and national editor with The Associated Press in New York and has worked for newspapers in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia. He is the author of a number of screenplays and other works. He lives in Florida.
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Migraine - Jack Sholl
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First published by AuthorHouse 09/09/2011
ISBN: 978-1-4634-4638-3 (sc)
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2011914212
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Contents
Migraine: Introductory Notes
Migraine
Circle of Friends and Family
Endnote, disclaimers and acknowledgements
Selected Bibliography
Migraine: Introductory Notes
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) was the foremost philosopher of his age and the 20th Century. Formidable, iconoclastic and virtually unapproachable, he was neither read nor understood during his lifetime. Yet, he clearly foresaw the mindset of the 20th Century, and his influence on subsequent generations of philosophers was profound.
Nietzsche grappled with the big problems of life and the universe. He made many contributions to morals, aesthetics, psychology, literature and political science. He foresaw the overarching dominance of technology on people’s lives and the societal gestalt that led to World War II.
Nietzsche, it is said, thought more about the human condition than any other human being. His great philosophical works include Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Twilight Of The Idols, Human All Too Human, The Will To Power, The Gay Science, The Birth of Tragedy, The Anti-Christ and Ecce Homo. In a large compendium of writings, he plumbed the depths of the human mind itself. And in his ideas can be found the forerunners of Sigmund Freud’s later classic conception of the Id, Ego and Superego. A contemporary of the naturalist Charles Darwin, Nietzsche’s ideas coincide with our understanding today of the workings of molecular biology, as well as quantum physics. If for nothing else, Nietzsche is best remembered in non-philosophical circles for the quote God is Dead.
Although a brilliant intellectual force, Nietzsche’s personal life was a life of torment. He suffered unbearably from a host of physical symptoms and was generally in endurable pain, most notably from migraine headache. Nietzsche was caught in a viscous circle—a circle that rotated between new, monumental thinking and physical pain and suffering. Nietzsche illustrates the fact that the body and mind do not operate independently. In his case, which came first—physical pain forcing deep, intense thought, or supreme thought expressing itself in physical anguish—remains a matter of medical conjecture.
Nietzsche’s major symptom, the migraine headache, is the symptom of our own age. Unidentified pain is one of the most prevalent medical complaints of the 21st Century. In the United States today alone, some 36 million people are thought to suffer from migraine headache. While much has been written about migraine in the medical literature, medical experts for the most part attribute the symptom to an underlying uneasiness brought on by the complexities, conflicts and confusion of life in an advanced and affluent economy.
Nietzsche was a loner who spent most of his time in self-imposed