Jung's Nietzsche , 1st ed. 2019
Zarathustra, The Red Book, and “Visionary” Works

This book explores C.G. Jung's complex relationship with Friedrich Nietzsche through the lens of the so-called 'visionary' literary tradition. The book connects Jung's experience of the posthumously published Liber Novus (The Red Book) with his own (mis)understanding of Nietzsche's Zarathustra, and formulates the hypothesis of Jung considering Zarathustra as Nietzsche's Liber Novus ?? both works being regarded by Jung as 'visionary' experiences. After exploring some 'visionary' authors often compared by Jung to Nietzsche (Goethe, Hölderlin, Spitteler, F. T. Vischer), the book focuses upon Nietzsche and Jung exclusively. It analyses stylistic similarities, as well as explicit references to Nietzsche and Zarathustra in Liber Novus, drawing on Jung's annotations in his own copy of Zarathustra. The book then uses Liber Novus as a prism to contextualize and understand Jung's five-year seminar on Zarathustra: all the nuances of Jung's interpretation of Zarathustra can be fully explained, only when compared with Liber Novus and its symbology. One of the main topics of the book concerns the figure of 'Christ' and Nietzsche's and Jung's understandings of the 'death of God.'

Introduction

1. A Life-Long Confrontation

1.1. Jungʼs Educational Background

1.2 Nietzscheʼs Presence In The Evolving Of Jungʼs Thinking

2. Jungʼs Psychological Understanding Of Nietzsche

2. 1. Jungʼs Seminar On Zarathustra: A Problematic Reading

2.2. The ʻRed Bookʼ: Liber Novus

2.3. Jungʼs Zarathustra Or Nietzscheʼs Liber Novus?

3. Misreading Or ʻRevaluationʼ?

3.1. The Unconscious As A Perspective

3.2. Structure Of The Work

Chapter 1

ʻVisionaryʼ Works And Liber Novus

1.1 ʻVisionaryʼ Works

1.1.1 Jungʼs Definition And Characterisation

1.1.2 Return To Mythology

1.2 ʻVisionaryʼ Authors

1.2.1 Theology

1.2.2 Basel and its Environment

1.2.3 Liber Novus as Jungʼs ʻVisionaryʼ Experience

Chapter 2

2.1 Nietzsche And The Style Of  Liber Novus

2.1.1 Introductory Remarks

2.2 Similar Symbology: Nietzscheʼs Hidden Presence

2.2.1 Desert, Lion and Transformation

2.2.2 Poisonous Serpents, Riddles, Dwarfs

2.2.3 Sun, Sunset And Eastern Wisdom

2.3 Nietzscheʼs Explicit Presence: Overcoming Rationalism

2.3.1 Folly As The Other Side Of Life

2.3.2 Teaching, Mocking And Imitating: The Process Of Self-Becoming

Chapter 3

Liber Novus In Nietzsche: Jungʼs Seminar On Zarathustra

3.1 Jungʼs Interpretation of Zarathustra

3.1.1 Introductory Remarks

3.2 Zarathustra As Nietzscheʼs Failed Individuation

3.2.1 The Old Wise Man: Zarathustra And Philemon

3.2.3 Isolated Suns, The Island Of The Dead And The ʻWheel of Creationʼ

3.3 Animals

3.3.1 Serpent, Bird And Black Scarab

3.3.2 Frogs And Swamp

3.3.3 Doves, Feminine And Jungʼs ʻSoulʼ

Conclusion

1. Introductory Remarks

2. The ʻDeath Of Godʼ And The Meaning Of ʻChristianityʼ

2.1 Philological Experiments And Empiricist Revelations

2.2 Nietzsche And The Issue Of Imitation: Socrates, Wagner, Christ

2.3 Jung And Christʼs Archetypal Nature

3. Self-Overcoming

Gaia Domenici is Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies, University College London, UK.

Explores how Jung's opinion on Nietzsche changes and develops throughout Jung's life

Discusses the figure of 'Christ' and Nietzsche's and Jung's understandings of the 'death of God'

Offers a close reading of the Red Book in the light of Jung’s later seminar on Thus Spoke Zarathustra