His philosophy compensated for not being good at life. by Richard Hanania. Nietzsche’s ideas today sometimes seem banal, but only because we have fully incorporated his worldview. I now take for granted that humans are often driven by resentment, and the desire to tear things down rather than any positive vision of the good.

It is this rationalist man and world which led, on the one hand, to the emergence of a new kind of leadership which used and uses propaganda as the main organizing principle, and on the other hand, which produced or created this population which is lonely, disconnected, and very vulnerable to propaganda.

The striking analogies between the ideas of Freud and Friedrich Nietzsche, whose works were published from one to three decades before those of Freud, have been commented upon, but no previous systematic correlation of the ideas of Nietzsche and Freud has been made.

Nietzsche: the endless cycle of desire and dissatisfaction caused by the will is a good thing that we can use as fuel towards the process of self-overcoming and growth.

No objective truth: “There are no facts, only interpretations.” [5.10] Will to Power [7.46] personal growth – power over self – striving towards ideal of overman – “self overcoming” “If we have our own why in life, we shall get along with almost any how.”

died addicted to opium “Our morality amounts to a vindictive effort to poison the happiness of the fortunate (GM III, 14), instead of a high-minded, dispassionate, and strictly rational concern for others”. “the belief in the Christian God has become unbelievable” everything that was “built upon this faith, propped up by it, grown into it”, […]

Masturbation is a unique form of sex. It was frowned upon in some eras, tolerated in others, and celebrated in none. by Philip Mathias. Comment-98505: I agree with Nietzsche when he said: “the degree and kind of a man’s sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.”

by Richard Waugaman. Psychiatry, 36:4, 458-467. This article begins with a brief review of the evidence that Freud was familiar with and influenced by the writings of Nietzsche. Secondly, there is a comparison of Nietzsche’s and Freud’s respective outlooks on human motivation, based on Nietzsche’s theory of the will to power and Freud’s theory of […]

2015 Personality Lecture 08: Depth Psychology: Sigmund Freud (Part 1) People organise their personalities by talking and if you don’t have anyone to listen to you then there’s no reality check.

Biographical notes, history, bibliography, correspondence transcripts, verse play, and meditation on the Great War, 1914-1918. by Phil McCray. https://archive.org/details/briffaultspassch0000mccr/mode/2up page 1 – 2 By unanimous judgment, Briffault was a fabulously learned and inventive thinker, yet also an overbearing and difficult personality. He was a communist and an atheist, yet he was a dandy who dressed […]

Nietzsche, 1887 TRANSLATED BY CAROL DIETHE Cambridge Uni Press, 2nd edition 2006 He brings ointments and balms with him, of course; but first he has to wound so that he can be the doctor; and whilst he soothes the pain caused by the wound, he poisons the wound at the same time – for that […]

Robin Small, Nietzsche and Rée: A Star Friendship, Oxford University Press, 2005. Reviewed by Paul S. Loeb. Small succeeds admirably in charting a larger swath of the stellar orbit in which the different ways and goals of Nietzsche and Rée should be included. Darwin is the center of this orbit. In his detailed recounting of […]