Nietzsche's Zarathustra

C. G. Jung Seminars, 1934–1939 (Volume 1)

C. G. Jung, James L. Jarrett

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2026
• Print ISBN:
  9780691293110
  9780691293127
• eBook ISBN:
  9780691297354
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Psychology

Volume one of Jung’s seminar on the book that moved him profoundly and had a lifelong influence on his thought

Nietzsche’s infamous work Thus Spake Zarathustra is filled with a strange sense of religiosity that seems to run counter to the philosopher’s usual polemics against religious faith. For some scholars, this book marks little but a mental decline in the great philosopher. For C. G. Jung, however, Zarathustra was an invaluable demonstration of the unconscious at work, one that illuminated both Nietzsche’s psychology and spirituality and that of the modern world in general. This is the first of two volumes of Jung’s lively seminar on Nietzsche’s Zarathustra, which remains an important source for specialists in depth psychology. In these historic sessions, the mature Jung speaks informally to members of his inner circle about a thinker whose work not only overwhelmed him with a profound understanding of human nature but also provided the philosophical sources of many of Jung's own ideas.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Acknowledgments
• A Note on the Text
• Members of the Seminar
• List of Bibliographic Abbreviations
• Spring 1934
• Autumn 1934
• Winter 1935
• Spring 1935
• Autumn 1935