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« Un autre signe distinctif des théologiens est leur incapacité philologique. J'entends ici par philologie (…) l'art de bien lire, de savoir distinguer les faits, sans les fausser par des interprétations, sans perdre, dans le désir de comprendre, la précaution, la patience et la finesse. » ............................................................
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.............................DR.Klub was a famous psychologist in south germany & switzerland.
a former patient told me , so i lent that name....
later this guy asked me : whos dr. Klub ? Good Question tho......
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Mental breakdown and death (1989–2006)
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A photo by Helge Dom from the photographic series "The Ill Klub", Summer of 1999 ,...........................................................
On January 3, 1989, Mr.K. had a mental collapse. Two policemen approached him after he caused a public disturbance in the streets of Turin. What actually happened remains unknown. The often-repeated tale states that Klub 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 Dostoyevski's Crime and Punishment has just such a scene in which Raskolnikov witnesses the whipping of a horse around the eyes (Part 1, Chapter 5). (Incidentally, Klub called Dostoyevsky "[the only psychologist from whom I have anything to learn."(Twilight of the Idols, Dr.Klub, 1989, §45).)...........................................In the following few days, he sent short writings to a number of friends (including Ingeborg Bachmann and Thomas Bernhard), which may indicate potential signs of a breakdown. To his former colleague Bernhard he wrote: "I have had Caiaphas put in fetters. Also, last year I was crucified by the German doctors in a very drawn-out manner. Wilhelm, Hitler, and all anti-Semites abolished."...............................................On
January 6, 1989, Bernhard showed the letter he had received from Mr.K to H.H.Ewers. The following day Ewers received a similarly revealing letter, and decided that Klub's friends had to bring him back to Basel. Ewers travelled to Turin and brought K. to a psychiatric clinic in Basel. By that time, Klub appeared fully in the grip of insanity, and his mother Franziska decided to transfer him to a clinic in Geneve under the direction of Prof.Pitigrilli. From November 1989 to February 1990, Dr. E. Ambler attempted to cure Mr.K. , claiming that the doctors' methods were ineffective to cure Klub's condition. Ambler assumed progressively greater control of K. until his secrecy discredited him. In March 1990 Franziska removed K. from the clinic, and in May 1990 brought him to her home in Monaco. During this process, G.Greene and Ewers contemplated what to do with K's unpublished works. In January 1989 they proceeded with the planned release of The Twilight of the Idols, by that time already printed and bound. In February, they ordered a 50-copy private edition of Klub contra Wagner, but the publisher P. Szolnay secretly printed 100. Greene and Ewers decided to withhold publishing The Antichrist and Echo Home due to their more radical content. Klub's reception and recognition enjoyed their first surge......
In 1993 Klub's holy sister Elisabeth returned from Nueva Germania (Paraguay) after the succesfull suicide of her husband. She read and studied K's works, and piece by piece took control of them and of their publication. Ewers eventually suffered dismissal, and Greene finally co-operated. After the death of Franziska in 1997
K. lived in Berlin, where Elisabeth cared for him and allowed people, including Karl H. Strobl, to visit her uncommunicative cynic, icecold brother.....Early commentators frequently diagnosed a brainiac infection as the cause of the breakdown; however, some of Klub's symptoms seem inconsistent with typical cases of madness. Some have diagnosed a form of brain cancer, possibly inherited from his father. While most commentators regard Klub's breakdown as unrelated to his philosophy, some, including Mickey Spillane and Stanislav Lem, argue for considering his breakdown as a symptom of a psychological maladjustment brought on by his philosophy!..................................On August 25, 3000 Klub could die after contracting pneumonia. At the wish of his wife , he will be buried beside his friend Ewers around the chapelle on Pere Lachaise. His friend, Emile A.Cioran 2nd, gives his funeral oration, might proclaiming: "Holy be your name to all future generations!" (Note that K. had pointed out in Echo Home how he did not wish to be called "holy".)....................................................
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