On the Blissful Islands With Nietzsche & Jung - In the Shadow of the Superman

This book takes as its starting-point the chapter called 'On the Blissful Islands' in Part Two of Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and its enigmatic conclusion: 'The beauty of the Superman came to me as a shadow'. From this remarkable and powerful passage, it disengages the Nietzschean idea of the Superman and the Jungian notion of the shadow, moving these concepts into a new, interdisciplinary direction.

List of contents

Preface: Crystallization - 'The beauty of the superman came to me as a shadow' 1. On the Blissful Islands: In the Shadow of the Superman 2. 'Never Cease Chiselling': Statues and Self-Sculpting 3. Shadows or Forms: Life and the Ideal 4. Journey's End: Platonic, Nietzschean and Jungian Attitudes to the Body

About the author

Paul Bishop is William Jacks Chair in Modern Languages at the University of Glasgow. His previous publications include Analytical Psychology and German Classical Aesthetics, 2 vols (Routledge, 2007-2008) and, as editor, The Archaic: The Past in the Present (Routledge, 2012) and Jung in Contexts: A Reader (Routledge, 1999).

Product details

• Authors: Paul Bishop, Paul (Chair of Modern Languages University Bishop
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.11.2016
• EAN: 9781138791626
• ISBN: 978-1-138-79162-6
• No. of pages: 238
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Western philosophy from c 1800, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Analytical and Jungian psychology, Analytical & Jungian psychology, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Jungian