Jacob Golomb
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This book is as much about Freud and Heidegger as it is about Nietzsche. Golomb was right that there was a 'lacuna' in Nietzschean studies involving the study of Nietzsche's psychology, and his relationship to Freud. That would have been enough for a book. But Golomb also has the issue of Heidegger to introduce all over the place. As a result, this book becomes a Heideggerization of Freud and with him, Nietzsche.
If you want to learn about Nietzsche, you don't want to read this. There are a couple of interesting enough chapters about the early development of Nietzsche's psychological thought. But beyond this, students proceed at their own peril.
Editorial Review:
Nietzsche described himself as the first psychologist of the West. His interpreters, however, have seldom regarded his works as contributions to psychology. This book gives the psychological perspective a central role and uses it as a guide through Nietzsche's aphoristic maze toward the centre of his thought, method, aims and ramifications. Psychology thus serves as the path to his philosophy and leads to a reconstruction of his substantive theses, including the morality of positive power. By exploring Nietzsche's depth psychology in detail, the book clarifies his basic purpose: to entice readers into uncovering and reactivating their own sources of creative power.
