Nietzsche and Psychoanalysis

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SUNY Press, Jan 1, 1993 - Philosophy - 258 pages
This book presents a reading of the Nietzschean thought of the eternal return of all things and relates it to Freud's psychoanalysis of the repetition compulsion. Nietzsche's eternal return and Freud's repetition compulsion have never before been so seriously compared. The manner in which this study is executed is drastically different from usual Nietzsche scholarship and Freud studies. Chapelle works with his material until it acquires archetypal levels of significance, even while the level of everyday life experience is never abandoned. He returns the theory and practice of psychologizing and philosophizing to the old ground of imaginative poetic and ultimately mythic thought.

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Contents

What If? Willing Suspension of Disbelief
17
Scientific Disbelief Attempt at Exorcism
25
Inspiration Appropriation Transformation
35
Time and Its It Was
51
Tragedy ApolloDionysus
69
Necessity Amor Fati
79
Zarathustra His Own Worst Enemy?
87
Eternal Return in Everyday Life
95
Thanatos What if Eternal Return were Instinctual?
143
Transference Analysis Healing the Wound of Time
163
The Myth of Archetypal Ontology
175
The Uncanny
191
The Double
209
Soul and Image Archetypal Psychology
225
To Find a Good Book to Live in
241
Abbreviations
247

Eternal Return in Transference
103
Compulsion into Metaphor
113
The Myth of Er Eternal Compulsion into Image
129

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Page 1 - Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: "You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.

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Daniel Chapelle is a psychologist in private consulting and therapy practice.

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