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In his turn-of-the-century novel about a woman's sexual urges, The Deeps of Deliverance (1900), the author's handling of the topics of erotic passion, drug abuse, and prostitution reveals his professional training as a psychiatrist. Van Eeden also is a leading figure in the field of Netherlandic literary history: He played an active part in the Tachtiger-beweging (The Movement of the Eighties) which marks the beginning of modern Dutch literature. Philosophically, he began as an idealistic reformer. Van Eeden's influence can be gauged by the fact that, in addition to publishing several outstanding novels, he corresponded and worked extensively with prominent persons in the world of science, such as Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietsche, and Sigmund Freud. He and Upton Sinclair also kept up an exchange of letters. Appreciation for the work of van Eeden is shown by the contributions of these and other world leaders in the Liber Amicorum (1930) where van Eeden is presented as a unique and irreplaceable figure. 020