Jung's Nietzsche

Introduction

1. A Life-Long Confrontation

1.1. Jung s Educational Background

1.2 Nietzsche s Presence In The Evolving Of Jung s Thinking

2. Jung s Psychological Understanding Of Nietzsche

2. 1. Jung s Seminar On Zarathustra: A Problematic Reading

2.2. The Red Book : Liber Novus

2.3. Jung s Zarathustra Or Nietzsche s Liber Novus?

3. Misreading Or Revaluation ?

3.1. The Unconscious As A Perspective

3.2. Structure Of The Work

 

Chapter 1

Visionary Works And Liber Novus

1.1 Visionary Works

1.1.1 Jung s Definition And Characterisation

1.1.2 Return To Mythology

1.2 Visionary Authors

1.2.1 Theology

1.2.2 Basel and its Environment

1.2.3 Liber Novus as Jung s Visionary Experience

 

Chapter 2Nietzsche In Liber Novus



2.1 Nietzsche And The Style Of  Liber Novus

2.1.1 Introductory Remarks

2.2 Similar Symbology: Nietzsche s Hidden Presence

2.2.1 Desert, Lion and Transformation

2.2.2 Poisonous Serpents, Riddles, Dwarfs

2.2.3 Sun, Sunset And Eastern Wisdom

2.3 Nietzsche s Explicit Presence: Overcoming Rationalism

2.3.1 Folly As The Other Side Of Life

2.3.2 Teaching, Mocking And Imitating: The Process Of Self-Becoming2.3.3 Death And Rebirth Of God



 

Chapter 3

Liber Novus In Nietzsche: Jung s Seminar On Zarathustra

3.1 Jung s Interpretation of Zarathustra

3.1.1 Introductory Remarks

3.2 Zarathustra As Nietzsche s Failed Individuation

3.2.1 The Old Wise Man: Zarathustra And Philemon 3.2.2 Intoxication, Inflation, The Übermensch And The Übersinn



3.2.3 Isolated Suns, The Island Of The Dead And The Wheel of Creation

3.3 Animals

3.3.1 Serpent, Bird And Black Scarab

3.3.2 Frogs And Swamp

3.3.3 Doves, Feminine And Jung s Soul

 

Conclusion

1. Introductory Remarks

2. The Death Of God And The Meaning Of Christianity

2.1 Philological Experiments And Empiricist Revelations

2.2 Nietzsche And The Issue Of Imitation: Socrates, Wagner, Christ

2.3 Jung And Christ s Archetypal Nature

3. Self-Overcoming

Gaia Domenici is Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies, University College London, UK.