Nietzsche and Depth Psychology

by Golomb, Jacob

• ISBN13: 9780791441404
• ISBN10: 0791441407
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-05-01
• Publisher: STATE UNIV OF NEW YORK PRESS

Summary

Exploring the connections between Nietzsche's thought and depth psychology, this book sheds new light on the relation between psychology and philosophy. It examines the status and function of Nietzsche's psychological insights within the framework of his thought; explores the formative impact of Nietzsche's "new psychology" on Freud, Adler, Jung, and other major psychoanalysts; and adopts Nietzsche's original psychological insights on the figure and biography of Nietzsche himself. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Jacob Golomb is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the author of several books, including Nietzsche's Enticing Philosophy of Power. Weaver Santaniello is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University, Berks, and the author of Nietzsche, God, and the Jews, published by SUNY Press. Ronald Lehrer is Associate Professor of Education and Psychology and Program Head of the undergraduate program in Special Education at Touro College. He is the author of Nietzsche's Presence in Freud's Life and Thought: On the Origins of a Psychology of Dynamic Unconscious Mental Functioning, also published by SUNY Press.

Table of Contents

Contributors	ix
Acknowledgments	xiii
Abbreviations	xv
Introductory Essay: Nietzsche's New Psychology	1	(22)
Jacob Golomb
PART 1 Psychology in Nietzsche
Psychology as the ``Great Hunt''	23	(14)
James P. Cadello
Nietzsche and Psychoanalysis: From Eternal Return to Compulsive Repetition and Beyond	37	(14)
Daniel Chapelle
The Birth of the Soul: Toward a Psychology of Decadence	51	(22)
Daniel W. Conway
The Garden of Innocence? Nietzsche's Psychology of Woman	73	(18)
Rochelle L. Millen
Nietzsche's Psychogenealogy of Religion and Racism	91	(20)
Weaver Santaniello
Willing Backwards: Nietzsche on Time, Pain, Joy, and Memory	111	(16)
Ofelia Schutte
Nietzsche and the Emotions	127	(22)
Robert Solomon
PART 2 Nietzsche and Psychology
The Birth of Psychoanalysis from the Spirit of Enmity: Nietzsche, Ree, and Psychology in the Nineteenth Century	149	(22)
Robert C. Holub
Nietzsche and Freud, or: How to Be within Philosophy While Criticizing It from Without	171	(10)
Eric Blondel
Freud and Nietzsche, 1892--1895	181	(24)
Ronald Lehrer
Nietzsche and Jung: Ambivalent Appreciation	205	(24)
Graham Parkes
Adler and Nietzsche	229	(18)
Ronald Lehrer
Reversing the Crease: Nietzsche's Influence on Otto Rank's Concept of Creative Will and the Birth of Individuality	247	(24)
Claude Barbre
Part 3 The Psychology of Nietzsche and His Readers (Psychobiography)
Nietzsche's Psychology and Rhetoric of World Redemption: Dionysus versus the Crucified	271	(24)
Claudia Crawford
Nietzsche's Secrets	295	(22)
Deborah Hayden
Nietzsche's Readers and Their ``Will to Ignorance''	317	(14)
George Moraitis
Nietzsche's Striving	331	(12)
Carl Pletsch
Select Bibliography	343	(8)
Index	351