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KMID : 0385320060170020161
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Journal of Korean Psychoanalytic Society
2006 Volume.17 No. 2 p.161 ~ p.170
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Psychoanalytic Reading of Nietzsche’s Zarathustra
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Lee Byung-Wook
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Abstract
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Nietzsche’s Zarathustra is the most popular masterpiece among all metaphysical writings. I am not interested in Nietzsche’s psychiatric condition, including the controversial diagnosis, but rather in the psychological backgrounds of his stormy and anguished composition of Zarathustra. I think that his Zarathustra seems to be a kind of covertly confessional crying, and the philosophical expression of Nietzsche’s personal wishes, daydreaming, regrets, and enormous rages. I suspect that the events that directly triggered Nietzsche’s composition of Zarathustra were the love affair with Lou Salome and her direct rejection of him. He had a break down and psychic crisis immediately afterwards. Although he had previous many psychological problems including the incestuous attraction to his younger sister, negative effects from his mother, early loss of father and a failed love affair, he seemed to be reborn and purified through the cathartic effects of his writings of Zarathustra, and he felt being cured temporarily. But I wonder why he spoke of his psychological yearnings through the mouth of the famous ancient Persian prophet Zarathustra. He declared daringly that God is dead. Western people believe that their God is the same as the Jewish God Jehovah. I mean that why didn’t he make a choice of Israel, and why he did select Persia. I suspect that there were special meanings. First, his Jewish friend Paul Ree was a plunderer of his lover Lou Salome. Secondly, Professor Carl Andreas who married Lou Salome was a second plunderer, and his original root was the Persian. Of course I believe that Nietzsche was not racist, but seemed to be very ambivalent to the Jewish especially just after the departure with Lou Salome. Lou Salome wandered between the German and the Jew for the choice of her marital partner, but she decided to the Persian. Nietzsche wandered about between Lou Salome and his younger sister for his eternal soul mate, but he lost all things. I think that he was a really tragic man.
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KEYWORD
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Nietzsche, Zarathustra, Lou Salome
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