Composing the Soul
Reaches of Nietzsche's Psychology
Will be published approx. on 15. December 1994
Book
Hardback
496 pages
978-0-226-64686-2 (ISBN)
Description
This text examines the contours of Nietzsche's psychology in the context of his life and psychological make-up. Beginning with essays from Nietzsche's youth, the author shows the influence on Nietzsche of such figures as Goethe, Byron and Emerson on Nietzsche. Parkes goes on to chart the development of Nietzsche's psychological ideas in terms of the imagery, drawn from the dialogues of Plato as well as from Nietzsche's own quasi-mystical experiences of nature, in which he spoke of the soul. Finally, Parkes analyzes Nietzsche's most revolutionary idea - that the soul is composed of multiple "drives" or "persons" within the psyche. The task for Nietzsche's psychology, then, was to identify and order these multiple persons within the individual - to compose the soul.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chicago
United States
Publishing group
The University of Chicago Press
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 23 mm
Width: 16 mm
Thickness: 3 mm
Weight
851 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-226-64686-2 (9780226646862)
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Person
Content
Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction I: Seeds in Psychical Soil (1850-1870) Goethe, Byron, Holderlin The Mentor from Concord Moods of the Interior Schopenhauer and Wagner II: The Melodic Centaur (1870-1872) Labor before The Birth Dionysian and Apollonian Drives Platonic Prefigurations Muthos versus Logos III: Struggles for Multiple Vision (1872-1877) Changes in Guiding Images Flows of Phantasy Rootings through the Past Mastering Multiplicities IV: Land and Seascapes of the Interior Exploration of Psychological Space Earth, Rock, and Stone Suns and Vital Fires Rivers - from Lake to Sea Interlude 1: Art-Works against Nature V: Husbanding the Soul: Vegetal Propagation Trees on Stony Ground Preparing Suitable Soil Sowings of Psychical Seed Cultivation, Irrigation, Fruition Interlude 2: The Psychical Feminine VI: Husbanding the Soul: Animal Procreation Stalking the Wild Life Accommodating Animals Psychical Intercourse True Pregnancies and Ultimate Issues VII: Emergence of Imagining Drives A Brief History of Psychical Polycentricity Herder, Kant, Schiller, Fichte Psychological Ramifications VIII: Dominions of Drives and Persons (1869-1887) Tyrannical Drives, Engaging Persons Thoughts as Personal Presences The Fabric(ation) of Experience Unpublished Notes from 1881 Drives Archaically Imagining IX: Archaic Casts and Psychical Regimes Patterns Personal and Impersonal Dreams and Archaic Inheritance Plays of Masks Ordering the Psyche Polytic Epilogue: A Dangerous Life Notes Selected Bibliography Index of Passages in Nietzsche's Published works Name Index Subject Index