Jung, Nietzsche
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10 minute break in class on N. and professor Christine Downing just summarized one of the points of commonality between Freud and N.
Religion and metaphysics are illusions created by the deep human longing to fulfill 3 unfillable needs:
1) that the world be ordered.
2) being good and being happy are linked.
3) death is not the final word.
In FFX, Yevon gives #1, but it's definitely an illusion. The Calm is the result of Summoners' noble sacrifice, which is actually in vain. And death ISN'T the final word, but it turns out that Spira is much worse off because death dominates so much.
10 minute break in class on N. and professor Christine Downing just summarized one of the points of commonality between Freud and N.
Religion and metaphysics are illusions created by the deep human longing to fulfill 3 unfillable needs:
1) that the world be ordered.
2) being good and being happy are linked.
3) death is not the final word.
In FFX, Yevon gives #1, but it's definitely an illusion. The Calm is the result of Summoners' noble sacrifice, which is actually in vain. And death ISN'T the final word, but it turns out that Spira is much worse off because death dominates so much.
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Date: 2006-10-25 10:34 pm (UTC)Next month we're covering how Nietzsche was appropriated and distorted by Hitler. This is a class on the perils and dangers of myth, using Goethe's and Thomas Mann's Faust and Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra and Birth of Tragedy.
That was so terrible what his sister, Elizabeth, did. If in his right mind or alive he would have so gone off on her for doing such a thing to him.
An interesting read is his My Sister and I and despite what many say, there was been great research into proving that it was indeed written by Nietzsche. My German professor was in on all that fun research so now he's an expert and even wrote an excerpt thing to the last print of the book that is hard to find. ^_^ So if you want to read it I own it.