num_pages: 1616
description: Growing up near Basel, Jung was fascinated &amp; disturbed by tales of Nietzsche's brilliance, eccentricity &amp; 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 These volumes, the transcript of a previously unpublished private seminar, reveal the fruits of his initial curiosity: Nietzsche's works, which he read as a student at the University of Basel, had moved him profoundly &amp; had a lifelong 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 &amp; metapsychological ideas. Above all, he demonstrated how the remarkable book Thus Spake Zarathustra illustrates both Nietzsche's genius &amp; his neurotic &amp; prepsychotic tendencies. Since there was at that time no thought of the seminar notes being published, Jung felt free to joke, to lash out at people &amp; events that irritated him &amp; to comment unreservedly on political, economic &amp; other public concerns of the time. This seminar &amp; others, including the one recorded in Dream Analysis, were given in English in Zurich during the 1920s &amp; 1930s.
language: English
title: Nietzsche's Zarathustra: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1934-39 [2 Vol.]
titlecomplete: Nietzsche's Zarathustra: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1934-39 [2 Vol.]
characters: یونگ، نیچه, Frederich Nietzsche
genres: Reference, Philosophy, Psychology, Nonfiction, Psychoanalysis
ratings_count: 127
publisher: Princeton University Press