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Nietzsche's Zarathustra

Notes of the Seminar given in 1934-1939 by C.G.Jung

• By C. G. Jung
• Edited by James L. Jarrett

• Price: $75.00
• Binding: Hardback
• Pages: 792
• Published by: Routledge
• Publication Date: 5th October 1989
• ISBN: 978-0-415-03131-8

About the Book

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 These volumes, the transcript of a previously unpublished private seminar, reveal the fruits of his initial curiosity: Nietzsche's works, which he read as a student at the University of Basel, had moved him profoundly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.
Since there was at that time no thought of the seminar notes being published, Jung felt free to joke, to lash out at people and events that irritated or angered him, and to comment unreservedly on political, economic, and other public concerns of the time. This seminar and others, including the one recorded in Dream Analysis, were given in English in Zurich during the 1920s and 1930s.

Table of Contents

Introduction. Acknowledgements. A Note on the Text. Members of the Seminar. List of Bibliographic Abbreviations. Spring 1934. Autumn 1934. Winter 1935. Spring 1935. Autumn 1935. Volume 2. Winter 1936. Spring 1936. Spring 1937. Spring 1938. Autumn 1938. Winter 1939. References to the Psychological Analysis of Thus Spake Zarathustra. Index