Books : Jung's Seminar on Nietzsche's Zarathustra

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 193
EAN: 9780691017389
Format: Abridged
ISBN: 0691017387
Label: Princeton University Press
Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: November 03, 1997
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Sales Rank: 157975
Studio: Princeton University Press

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Nietzsche's infamous work Thus Spake Zarathustra is filled with a strange sense of religiosity that seems to run counter to the philosopher's usual polemics against religious faith. For some scholars, this book marks little but a mental decline in the great philosopher; for C. G. Jung, Zarathustra was an invaluable demonstration of the unconscious at work, one that illuminated both Nietzsche's psychology and spirituality and that of the modern world in general. The original two-volume edition of Jung's lively seminar on Nietzsche's Zarathustra has been an important source for specialists in depth psychology. This new abridged paperback edition allows interested readers to participate with Jung as he probes the underlying meaning of Nietzsche's great work.

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Rating: - Where philosophy and analytical psychology collide
As always it is amazing to experience C.G.Jung's depth of knowledge of religious systems. Searching for symbols of individuation in his patient's dreams while interacting with these patients might be acceptable, but doing the same thing based on a work of poetic philosophy is a completely different thing. However, here they are treated as being identical- Zarathustra is reduced to an unconscious byproduct of "Nietzsche's revolt against god".
While I am impressed by C.G. Jung's pattern ... Read More

Rating: - Jung contra Nietzsche, round 1.
Wonderful analysis, completely devoid of logical gaps or special requests from the reader: everything said, every assertation, is capable of hitting home and clarifying what was before a quirky throw-back of Nietzsche's. And *interesting* to boot -- this book is no long-winded scrutiny of Zarathustra, but rather the transcription of a private group analysis led by Jung, so it never loses itself in the lofty kingdoms of thought that are the bane of so much criticism.

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Rating: - the depth of Jung's knowledge....
...was simply incredible, as you see it applied here to Nietzsche and his most famous work. Jung goes step by step through it, explaining and amplifying. To his diagnosis of Nietzsche as an inflated and ungrounded intuitive, a slow death by syphillis should perhaps be added. Anyway, a remarkable two-volume exposition.