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On the Blissful Islands with Nietzsche & Jung - In the shadow of the superman (Hardcover)
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On the Blissful Islands with Nietzsche & Jung - In the shadow of the superman (Hardcover)
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What are the blissful islands? And where are they? This book takes
as its starting-point the chapter called 'On the Blissful Islands'
in Part Two of Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and its
enigmatic conclusion: 'The beauty of the Superman came to me as a
shadow'. From this remarkable and powerful passage, it disengages
the Nietzschean idea of the Superman and the Jungian notion of the
shadow, moving these concepts into a new, interdisciplinary
direction. In particular, On the Blissful Islands seeks to develop
the kind of interpretative approach that Jung himself employed. Its
chief topics are classical (the motif of the blissful islands),
psychological (the shadow), and philosophical (the UEbermensch or
superman), blended together to produce a rich,
intellectual-historical discussion. By bringing context and depth
to a nexus of highly problematic concepts, it offers something new
to the specialist and the general reader alike. So this book
considers the significance of the statue in the culture of
antiquity (and in alchemy), and investigates the associated notion
of self-sculpting as a form of existential exercise. This
Neoplatonic theme is pursued in relation to a poem by Schiller, at
the centre of which lies the notion of self-sculpting, thus
highlighting Nietzsche's (and Jung's) relationship to Idealism. Its
conclusion directly addresses the vexed (and controversial)
question of Nietzsche's relation to Plato. This book's main
ambition is to provide a cross-cultural, interdisciplinary reading
of key themes and motifs, using Jungian ideas in general (and
Jung's vast seminar on Zarathustra in particular) to uncover a
dimension of deep meaning in key passages in Nietzsche. Engaging
the reader directly on major existential questions, it aims to be
an original, thought-provoking contribution to the history of
ideas, and to show that Zarathustra was right: There still are
blissful islands! This book will be stimulating reading for
analytical psychologists, including those in training, and
academics and scholars of Jungian studies, Nietzsche, and the
history of ideas.
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