Nietzsche's Zarathustra: Notes of the Seminar given in 1934-1939. Two Volumes (Jung Seminars Book 99)

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 These volumes, the transcript of a previously unpublished private seminar, reveal the fruits of his initial curiosity: Nietzsche's works, which he read as a student at the University of Basel, had moved him profoundly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 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 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. Content: Cover Title Copyright Contents INTRODUCTION ACKNOWLEDGMENTS A NOTE ON THE TEXT MEMBERS OF THE SEMINAR LIST OF BIBLIOGRAPHIC ABBREVIATIONS SPRING 1934 I. 2 May 1934 II. 9 May 1934 III. 16 May1934 IV. 23 May 1934 V. 6 June 1934 VI. 13 June 1934 VII. 20 June1934 VIII. 27 June 1934 AUTUMN 1934 I. 10 October 1934 II. 17 0ctober 1934 III. 24 October 1934 IV. 31 October 1934 V. 7 November 1934 VI. 14 November 1934 VII. 21 November 1934 VIII. 28 November 1934 IX. 5 December 1934 X. 12 December 1934 WINTER 1935 I. 23 January 1935 II. 30 January 1935 III. 6 February 1935. By C.g. Jung ; Edited By James L. Jarrett. The Text Here Published Is That Of The Multigraphed Version Which Mary Foote, Its Editor, Issued Privately In Ten Volumes From Approximately 1934 To 1940 (specific Dates Of Issue Are Lacking)--verso Of T.p. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. An examination of one of the major philosophical influences on Jung that also provides a case study in Jungian psychology.