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Composing the Soul (Paperback, New edition)
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Composing the Soul (Paperback, New edition)
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Nietzsche wrote in "Ecce Homo" (1888) `that a psychologist without
equal speaks from my writings - this is perhaps the first insight
gained by a good reader...Who among the philosophers before me was
in any way a psychologist? Before me there simply was no
psychology'. This study focuses on this pronouncement, examining
the contours of Nietzsche's psychology in the context of his life
and psychological make-up. Beginning with essays from Nietzsche's
youth, the author shows the influence of such figures as Goethe,
Byron and Emerson on Nietzsche's development. He goes on to chart
the development of Nietzsche's psychological ideas in terms of the
imagery, drawn from the dialogues of Plato as well as from
Nietzsche's own quasi-mystical experiences of nature, in which he
spoke of the soul. Finally, Parkes analyzes one of Nietzsche's most
revolutionary ideas - that the soul is composed of multiple
"drives", or "persons", within the psyche. The task for Nietzsche's
psychology, then, was to identify and order these multiple persons
within the individual. Featuring new translations of quotations
from Nietzsche's writings, this book reveals the profundity of
Nietzsche's lifelong personal and intellectual struggles to come to
grips with the soul. Its aim is to make Nietzsche's life and ideas
accessible to any reader interested in this complex thinker.
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