Abstract
In the conclusion, I will put Zarathustra and Liber Novus in a face-to-face confrontation, based on their authors’ understanding of, and reaction to, the ‘death of God’. Firstly, I will explore the ideas of ‘death of God’ and ʻChristianity’ in Nietzsche and Jung. I will initially contrast Nietzscheʼs philological attitude with Jung’s alleged ‘empriricism’. I will then move on to Nietzsche’s understanding of Socratism, Wagnerism, and Christianity as imitational attitudes, expressions of decadence, to which Jung’s idea of Christ’s archetypal nature is to be counterpoised. Finally, I will explore the idea of self-overcoming in Nietzsche and Jung.
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Notes
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Pretty much simultaneously, Nietzsche’s teacher and guide, the philologist Friedrich Ritschl, made the same decision of teaching in Leipzig, after an argument with his colleague Otto Jahn.
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As the scholar points out, it is quite controversial to date Nietzsche’s estrangement from Christianity: ‘In the corpus of his early notes, we find testimonies of a living faith as late as 1861. But these notes conflict with other texts in which Nietzsche submitted Christian teachings to a sober analysis or penned rather blasphemous remarks. At any rate, from 1862 or so, Nietzsche was clearly already estranged from Christianity, and in 1865, when he confined his studies exclusively to classics, he overtly broke with it irrevocably’ (ibid.: 92).
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On a detailed representation of how Nietzsche’s idea of decadence can be combined with his criticism to Wagner, see Thomä 2008: 107–127.
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Nietzsche’s criticism also aims at Schopenhauer, who was equally hostile to life (ibid., KSA 6: 174).
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The last paragraph of Baudelaire’s note is quoted by Nietzsche in French: ‘Moi, je dis: la volupté unique et suprême de l’amour gît dans la certitude de faire le mal. Et l’homme et la femme savent, de naissance, que dans le mal se trouve toute volupté’.
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Interestingly, in his Zarathustra seminar, Jung interprets these elements as prophecies on Freud, Adler, and himself, respectively (see SNZ II: 1450–1451).
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Domenici, G. (2019). Conclusion. In: Jung's Nietzsche . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17670-9_5
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