Nietzsche's Presence In Freud's Life And Thought by Jim Lehrer
This study traces the intellectual presence of Nietzsche in the life and work of Sigmund Freud, arguing that Nietzschean themes—such as the critique of morality, the primacy of drives, the problem of repression, and the role of culture and religion in shaping subjective life—helped shape Freud’s theoretical landscape even when Freud did not openly acknowledge the debt. Combining close readings of both thinkers with biographical and historical context, the book maps points of convergence and divergence in method and rhetoric, shows how Nietzsche’s provocations anticipated or paralleled key psychoanalytic concepts, and assesses the complex cultural reception that linked their critiques of modernity and morality.
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