Nietzsche's Zarathustra: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1934-1939 by C.G.Jung Contributor(s): Jung, C. G. (Author), Jarrett, James L. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415031311 ISBN-13: 9780415031318 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $95.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 1989 |
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BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Movements - Jungian - Psychology | Mental Health - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern |
Dewey: 193 |
Physical Information: 792 pages |
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Publisher Description: As a young man growing up near Basel, Jung was fascinated and disturbed by tales of Nietzsche's brilliance, eccentricity, and eventual decline into permanent psychosis. These volumes, the transcript of a previously unpublished private seminar, reveal the fruits of his initial curiosity: Nietzsche's works, which he read as a student at the University of Basel, had moved him profoundly and had a life-long influence on his thought. During the sessions the mature Jung spoke informally to members of his inner circle about a thinker whose works had not only overwhelmed him with the depth of their understanding of human nature but also provided the philosophical sources of many of his own psychological and metapsychological ideas. Above all, he demonstrated how the remarkable book Thus Spake Zarathustra illustrates both Nietzsche's genius and his neurotic and prepsychotic tendencies. |