File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_1995/nietzsche_Apr.95, message 30


Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 15:24:51 -0600
From: claytex-AT-panix.com (Clay Thurmond)
Subject: Re: Nietzsche & psychology


>There is an oft-repeated anecdote that Freud was asked and declined to
>analyze Nietzsche.  Does anyone know if this is apocryphal, as I suspect?
>Reg

A footnote in Kaufmann (p. 182) has this quote from Freud, comparing N. to
Schopenhauer: "Nietzsche, the other philosopher whose premonitions and
insights often agree in the most amazing manner with the laborious results
of psychoanalysis, I have long avoided for this very reason.  After all, I
was less concerned about any priority than about the preservation of my
openmindedness."

Also noted is Freud's admiration for an aphorism from Beyond Good and Evil
(68):  "'I have done that,' says my memory.  'I could not have done that,'
says my pride, and remains inexorable.  Finally, my memory yields."  (by
the way, the Hollingdale translation has 'adamant' instead of inexorable,
which seems much more fitting to me).

Kaufmann also says, "Freud's other tributes to N. are cited in my From
Shakespeare to Existentialism, 323."

I also recall reading somewhere that Freud said something to the effect
that N. had the deepest self understanding of any other figure he had come
across.  I don't find it now in Kaufmann.  And if it were indeed true, one
wonders how Kaufmann could have missed it, considering that it would
certainly seal N's postion in the canon.



-clay thurmond




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