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Beyond the Brink: Nietzsche's Madness and Freud's Way Home

Friedrich Nietzsche embodied provocative, abyss-facing thought—philosopher, poet, psychologist—who influenced psychoanalysis and experienced a reputed 1889 collapse signaling profound mental decline.

fromPhilosophynow

2 months ago

Philosophers on Chocolate

Pop songs are usually about variations on the theme of love; tracks like Rose Royce's 1976 hit 'Car Wash' are the exception. Philosophers, likewise, tend to have a narrow focus on epistemology, metaphysics and trifles like the meaning of life. But occasionally great minds stray from their turf and write about other matters, for example buildings (Martin Heidegger), food (Hobbes), tomato juice (Robert Nozick), and the weather (Lucretius and Aristotle).

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fromFortune

2 months ago

A.I., a new 'superhuman' and the Fourth Industrial Revolution is just the latest revival of Friedrich Nietzsche's 'Superman' concept | Fortune

Technological revolutions repeatedly reshape human identity, prompting visions of a self-determining 'superhuman' as artificial intelligence ushers a new Fourth Industrial Revolution.

fromPsychology Today

3 months ago

Children of the Abyss: How Nietzsche Impacted Psychoanalysis

Who was Nietzsche? Philosopher, psychologist, poet, madman, provocateur-these names orbit around him but never settle. He is the "strange German," dismissed by some as the father of nihilism and amorality, revered by others as the prophet of self-becoming. No thinker has hovered so closely to the abyss or beckoned so many to peer into its depths. Fewer still have so haunted the origins of the psychoanalytic revolution, both as inspiration and as fateful warning.

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fromApaonline

3 months ago

Nietzsche, Fanon, and an Egalitarian Politics

Nietzsche's critique of reactionary European morality can be reoriented toward anti-colonial revolutionary aims by exposing reactional psychology as rooted in ruling-class interests.

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fromMedium

4 months ago