On the Blissful Islands with Nietzsche & Jung: In the shadow by Paul Bishop

By Paul Bishop

What are the glad islands? And the place are they? This booklet takes as its starting-point the bankruptcy referred to as ‘On the pleased Islands’ partially of Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and its enigmatic end: ‘The great thing about the Superman got here to me as a shadow’. From this impressive and robust passage, it disengages the Nietzschean suggestion of the Superman and the Jungian inspiration of the shadow, relocating those techniques right into a new, interdisciplinary path.



In specific, On the completely satisfied Islands seeks to increase the type of interpretative procedure that Jung himself hired. Its leader themes are classical (the motif of the pleased islands), mental (the shadow), and philosophical (the Übermensch or superman), mixed jointly to supply a wealthy, intellectual-historical dialogue. via bringing context and intensity to a nexus of hugely troublesome thoughts, it deals anything new to the expert and the overall reader alike. So this ebook considers the importance of the statue within the tradition of antiquity (and in alchemy), and investigates the linked idea of self-sculpting as a sort of existential workout. This Neoplatonic subject is pursued when it comes to a poem by means of Schiller, on the centre of which lies the suggestion of self-sculpting, therefore highlighting Nietzsche’s (and Jung’s) courting to Idealism. Its end at once addresses the vexed (and arguable) query of Nietzsche’s relation to Plato.



This book’s major ambition is to supply a cross-cultural, interdisciplinary analyzing of key subject matters and motifs, utilizing Jungian rules as a rule (and Jung’s colossal seminar on Zarathustra particularly) to discover a size of deep which means in key passages in Nietzsche. enticing the reader without delay on significant existential questions, it goals to be an unique, thought-provoking contribution to the historical past of rules, and to teach that Zarathustra was once correct: There nonetheless are joyful islands!



This e-book could be stimulating examining for analytical psychologists, together with these in education, and lecturers and students of Jungian stories, Nietzsche, and the heritage of ideas.

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