Friedrich Nietzsche: A Psychological Approach to His Life and Work

Jungian psychologist Liliane Frey-Rohn describes the psychological factors that brought Nietzsche into the depths of his own nature through a process in which sacrifice, loss and intense loneliness alternated with hero worship and "audacious self-glorification." In this book, a number of human problems are explored and discussed in relation to the brilliant but haunted biography of the 19th century philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche. The problem of good and evil, the search for personal truth, the questions of nihilism and life's meaning, and the dangers of self-inflation in the wake of religious experience are each considered in this in-depth psychological analysis. The author sheds new light on Nietzsche's extraordinary life and work, illuminating many aspects of his personal spiritual struggle, while providing insights into some of the most basic and problematic questions that confront us all.

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Biographie:Liliane Frey-Rohn hat an der Universität Zürich in Psychologie und Philosophie promoviert und begann im Jahre 1936 mit ihrer eigenen analytischen Praxis unter der Supervision von C.G. Jung. Während vieler Jahre war sie wesentlich an der Leitung des C.G. Jung-Institutes beteiligt, wo sie neben ihrer praktischen psychologischen Tätigkeit als Lehranalytikerin wirkte. Sie ist Verfasserin des Standardwerkes "Von Freud zu Jung" sowie von "Jenseits der Werte seiner Zeit", eine Auseinandersetzung mit den Schriften Friedrich Nietzsches.BiographyLiliane Frey-Rohn, one of C.G. Jung's closest collabo­rators, received her Ph.D. from the University of Zürich and opened her analytical practice in that same city more than fifty years ago. Her pioneering work, "From Freud to Jung", is used as a basic text by analysts-in-training around the world. Until 1991 Dr. Frey maintained an analytical practice in Zürich while continuing her active role as a major contributor to current theory and a trainer of new analysts.