Usually watch your videos to fall asleep, but I'm commenting now to say I love the Jung, Nietzsche, and philosophy content.

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One significant factor contributing to Nietzsche's madness is the profound conflict between his ideals and his personal limitations. He championed a philosophy of unapologetic acceptance of life, yet he was an exceptionally sensitive individual. This sensitivity is evident in his writing at times. In "Ecce Homo," he extols the concept of *amor fati*-the love of fate-but in the same work, he also states that the only excuse for God is that He doesn’t exist, revealing a deep-seated resentment towards the world. This internal contradiction between his philosophical aspirations and personal disposition likely exacerbated his mental struggles.

I appreciate this podcast in so many ways. Your devotion to a single Philosopher with the wide-range and many angles you take to get at him stands out. Thoughtful, well-spoken, and not centered on you and your image make this a model for what KZfaq could be.

here we go boys, more of Jung and Nietzsche. You made my day

Jung looks at Nietzsche how Nietzsche looks at Socrates

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56:44 I love measuring someone’s soul based on how much truth they can tolerate. After the last few years I appreciate and value so much more than before, someone’s ability to handle difficult truths about our reality. I never realized how few people can actually handle the truth whole truth. I figured it was maybe 40-50% of people that could be described that way. But after the pandemic and all of the other revelations, revelations about our governments and institutions, the way the world works, over the last decade I realize it’s more like 5-10% of the population that can actually stand the truth.

There is a depth of mystery one need never stop exploring, when it comes to the territory these 2 men dove into, at their own risk : it's a topic I'll never grow tired of. Multiple readings of Jung's Memories Dreams Reflections and Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil, and Thus Spake Zarathustra. So much yet still to wander through. Excellent work with this presentation!

I think there's enough documentation about Nietzsche's physical illness driving him into ?insanity? to say Jung and many others unfairly judge his insanity as a pure insanity unaffected by illness. In truth I believe Freud and Jung were far more indebted to Nietzsche than they wanted to admit. He was a brilliant thinker with concepts that opened their eyes. I prefer to think of Nietzsche as Walter Kaufman did as deserving to be known as a great thinker.

Lately it occurs to me that Neitzshe was one of the few philosophers who lived as he thought. His final years were famously spent in silence categorised by commentators as an mental illness of unknown aetiology. What if this was not pure "will" to explore the precipice and become anchorite. Oh and there it's now talked about in this post.

Hello hello thinkers. I would recommend to all of you the book "Nietzsche and Jung: The Whole Self in the Union of Opposites" by Lucy Huskinson. The book is derived from her doctoral thesis. What is important in this work is something similar to the content of this video - the similarities and differences in the thoughts of these two. Additionally, the book is an excellent review of all works by Nietzsche and all works by Jung through the prism of the "struggle" of opposites. The book also provides a good insight into the pre-Socratics, such as Heraclitus. There is a thread that connects these things and I think it leads very interestingly and intuitively to Bergson, Deleuze, and I will highlight Whitehead with his "philosophy (theology) of process". Finally, you should know: Support for this channel also from Serbia, I will try to spread the commendable work of this channel. Bravo!

“That, I thought, was his morbid misunderstanding: that he [Nietzsche] fearlessly and unsuspectingly let his No. 2 loose upon a world that knew and understood nothing about such things.” . . . “And he fell-tightrope-walker that he proclaimed himself to be--into depths far beyond himself. He did not know his way about in this world and was like a man possessed, one who could be handled only with the utmost caution.” (C. G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections) “When Zarathustra had thus spoken, one of the people called out: ‘We have now heard enough of the rope-dancer; it is time now for us to see him!’ And all the people laughed at Zarathustra. But the rope-dancer, who thought the words applied to him, began his performance.” “Zarathustra, however, looked at the people and wondered. Then he spake thus: Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss.” (Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra)

I usually find it difficult to find good commentary on intellectual titans like Jung and Nietzschie because people speak about them as though they are super heroes, but listening to you makes me feel like both Jung and Nietzschie as just people. Don't get me wrong, I still find both of them to be true sages, but now that I see them as more human figure, their knowledge feels more understandable now. Thank you for the podcast, it was genuinely illuminating

Looking forward to your future content. I'm excited for the broader topics you mentioned at the end of this video.

Man. I'm fascinated by what I call " compensatory display" and it relationship to how our immune system works on the biological level. So often we meet people who are compensating for an inner frustration or attempting to work something out on a deep personal level, but much like those biological systems, we can take it to far , and end up cannibalizing ourselves. I believe jung was definitley wise to notice this lack of integration in nietchze,and so many of us. Great presentation as always.

My father once told me that madness, depression and despair justify itself. Describing it makes you emphatize with it, thus descend into it. The real answer to despair is emptiness that lies beneath

Best channel on YT! Thanks so much for the great content!

Brilliant!! That was Awesome! Will listen to several times. And share, of course.

Really great talk. This is the first video I've watched of yours and you seem to have a way of presenting ideas fluidly, embedded within a greater narrative that makes the talk easily comprehensible

At 38:38, you use the phrase "Terror Management Theory" in speaking of the notions of Freud. Since the 1980s this phrase was adopted to refer to the work of 3 experimental social psychologists who set out to test the theories of cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker. Upon hearing the phrase here, I couldn't help wondering if Freud actually used it, and also whether you have heard of the TMT studies I refer to; one of the psychologists, Sheldon Solomon, is a friend of mine. The Ernest Becker Foundation dissolved last year and many members would not discuss the work of Jung with me, they tending towards rigid secular materialism. Delighted you are using him in your interpretations here as I believe Jung's ideas will finally have to be considered in any comprehensive survey of the psychological nature of Humankind.

Bravo. Masterful overview

This is my favorite lecture this far. Long time listener. And I find jung's perspective potent and fascinating

Great lecture as always!!! Which ever direction you take the podcast I’m sure it’ll be extremely interesting.

Thank you, as always, thoroughly engaging and informative.

Thanks for looking at this from all sides. I was fortunate to have Dr. Marion Woodamn as a high school English Teacher for five years. In my graduate year, she left teaching to attend the Jungian Institute in Switzerland. Later, she became an international icon in Jungian Psychology, an analyst, and the author of five books. I was raised a Christian, so I understood well the opposite views of Philosophy and Psychology. She would talk about them from time to time. Certainly, when entering university, I was way ahead of the game due to her teaching, which most had no clue about. I actually entered therapy, and the Dr said I was obsessed with the mind. Much due to it was the waters I was raised in. I always emphasized that one, when reading Nietzsche, should first read the great works he challenges or inverted as his personification of the antichrist that came before him. I want you to know that you are well presenting the philosophers who influenced Nietzsche. IT IS IMPORTANT! Many read Nietzsche as a comic book hero and hang on his every word rather than critically sorting it through to see the underlying works he changed from its religious and philosophical form into psychology. Many use the term inflated in everyday language, though in its proper context, as you refer to Jungs analytical view as a persona identification with an archetype. Nietzsche's persona identifies with the saviour complex (Christ) and wisdom ( Sophocles), wanting to cause a paradigm shift by knocking the pillars down rather than as a bridge. He, in fact, horrified the reader through his violent obsession. Jung has the psychologist tempter to absorb and listen before analyzing what he is trying to say. Your wording as a skit of the story of Abraham is biased toward Nietzsche; you have God telling the man to kill his child. Though he left out the angel's voice ( as in the Bible), it became his enlightened consciousness, raising him from the unconscious to consciousness. In psychological terms, ego awareness is where he chooses not to, as in Jung's psychology. Nietzsche would have no part of consciousness. Thanks again.

This is gold! Thank you, my friend.

"Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial" - Nietzsche foresaw Jung and those like him by a long shot

A very interesting discussion. Thank you for your videos and content

great work , fresh important contexts

Perfect timing, I'm about to take a walk to so I can listen to this at the same time, btw your last Jung video was excellent!

I’ve only read Jung’s Man and His Symbols. I’ve listened to many talks like this about his life’s work and my inevitable deep dive into the rest of his work is essential and over due. Talks like this rekindle my excitement for knowledge I’ve yet to receive. My interest has been focused on Hegel for the last few months and I’ve been avoiding studying these two thinkers alongside each other, but after this episode I think I will.

Thank you very much. Very important and insightful analysis.

Fascinating episode that addressed some of the concerns I've puzzled over re Nietzsche's philosophy, albeit raising new questions.

Carl Jung was the real reason for Nietzsche's madness? Boy, you learn something new every day!!

You have isolated just the portions of writing I wasn't sure I was looking for. Carl junior especially was so prolific that once you find a particular point of interest it's hard to sort through the whole corpus of work four other mentions related to that same subject. Thanks because my own efforts of study are impaired by disability illness and such I often find myself caught up and study for hours but with work so vast hard to tell if I've gotten anywhere on any particular idea. Then mentally and physically exhausted with what feels like not much to show. Always rather I have been impatient and lacking in concentration so this obviously helps focus

Some pretty solid observations you gave here.

Would be so on board with as much Jung related work as you want to put out.

Ah I needed this And in Walpurgis Night as well, great content.

Thank you very much for delving into, I do not have the time nor the will to sit down and read these books but am very interested in them. I find it hard to understand them sometimes. You have helped my understanding of philosophy 10 fold, thank you again.

This was so well done. Thank you.

This is your best video to date. Going to watch this again.

I like the way you take me with you to your new found compartments of the boat , where one realises that life is but a drean and all one to do is to keep rowing. These men, you included may be the wood work that makes the strong boat that takes anyone that finds themselves on board.

One thing overlooked in Neitzsche's writings is his excellent sense of humour.Many times after he rounded off an aphorism with a witty expression I would vurst out laughing.like many men of an intellectual nature I imagine Neitzsche to have been a man of a lusty temperament and a powerful libido and he may well have found a release in brothels .

I clicked the video because of the funny thumbnail. Made me chuckle, well done!

This was excellent!

Really nice selection of commentary on Nietzche’s writings.

Don’t think for a second that I didn’t notice your mentions of ‘Synchronicity” and the “Material World” within seconds of one another. Bravo, sir.

Nietzsche was impressive for the exact reason that he created a work that transcended the limitations of the philosopher, unlike other philosophers who limited themselves to the barriers of their own reason, Nietzsche perceived the void of the "death of god" and really went to the end and transcended himself , his life apparently going on a different path from his philosophy itself shows that even though he suffered from Cadasil due to his father's genetics, with intense intellectual activity he prolonged his life span and managed to overcome his living conditions within the scope of his work, thanks for the Deleuze's quote btw.

Tremendous episode!!! Truly spectacular!!!! Do you do group or private philosophy teachings?

Fabulous program.I am so deep into this program. The day after Orthodox Easter Pascha. The Church is darkened at Midnight and a one holy flame ignites all the candles and the members walk by in procession circular-everyone must leave the Church and the Priest is the one last out. On returning, he bangs the wooden cross loudly 3x on the door and shouts Open the Door! The members follow him back to the transformed Church.

Amazing content, thank you

Thank you, that was awesome.

7:28 People know Marx said, "Religion is the opiate of the people," but not that he says two paragraphs later, "The criticism of religion disillusions man, so that he will think, act, and fashion his reality like a man who has discarded his illusions and regained his senses, so that he will move around himself as his own true Sun. Religion is only the illusory Sun which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself." - Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right Marx wanted man's ego to be 'lord of the universe' as stated here. Marx was also obsessed with Mephistopheles in Faust, who you mentioned was a trickster figure in the archetype video; Marx's favourite quote of Mephistopheles being, "Everything that exists deserves to perish." I'm not religious, but it's just fascinating to see this.

May be your best video. It is calming❤

Excellent commentary 👏👏👏

I take a deep bow. This lecture was true profound youtube gold. Stay away from the trappings, in ALL aspects of life… ☯️😮‍💨

what an excellent lecture. how do i find more of your work.

Thanks for uploading the video. I am heavy into Nietzsche and i am really curious into diving into Jungs critique of him.

Really great dialogue on these thoughts. Nietzsche was a key to my juvenile insight, and absolutely influenced my philosophy. As I've aged, though, I've gravitated to Jung's thought. I think Jung's effort is also universally valuable, where Nietzsche's is niche. Both undoubtedly have their place. All that said... I wonder what Nietzsche's output would have been had he married the woman of his fancy.

Awesome video; loved it ❤ I

This thumbnail is pure gold i laughed so hard and had to watch, great video too ofc.❤

I believe this is one of your better videos

41:55 Your summarized opinions at this timestamp, are spot on imo, well done. Jung was probably in some sense, too much of a speculative mystic, and Nietzsche, probably too much of a disagreeable cynic. Nevertheless, there have hardly been two, more brilliant individuals in the past few centuries, and any thoughtfully derived 'synthesis' of their work is guaranteed to be fruitful.

This is fantastic analysis

Jung owns. Great episode.

Jung said... He doesn't believe in God, He knows... Extremely compelling.

Carl Jung has saved the psyche of humanity.

Excellent discourse

“Well it’s not merely…” YES! YES IT IS MERELY!

All that falls, rises; all that is lost finds its way back; all that is forgotten is remembered again.

Thank you for this 🙏🏻🙏🏻😉✌🏻⚡⚡

Thanks!

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Haven't listened yet, but a "like" just for the thumbnail! 😂

This was just wonderful.

At a certain point one has to discover that true self knowledge does not come from the mind.

Your podcast has been very informative and helpful. Thank you for your colossal effort.

Yes I am in the room.

Very useful… good stuff

lmao the thumbnail is hilarious!

42:04 ""...You can poke all sorts of logical holes in it, and accuse Jung of STATING things with certainty that are just speculation..."" Damn right I can; THAT is My view of him on all things.... I never liked Jung, his muddled mind and all the rest, passing as depth or underground thinking, his so called profundity is vomit, of all sorts of good nutritious foods that he could not stomach, like Nietzsche's clarity and truths. Jung's archetypes etc which seem to be infinitely divisible is just crank, an almost irresistible drug for the soft sciences and thus "therapists" love it, not so with Nietzsche. For Jung to say Nietzsche was NOT an atheist and thus suffered from it, and somehow led to his mental condition later, that is just pure.... I lack the words for what this is!! So he was an atheists that KNEW his god was dead?? Is a contradiction in terms!! Pure low level therapist, which next always proceed to explain, What I really mean by that is... so why not say THAT to begin with, and not the avalanche of bullsh!t your books are filled with. This is not against YOUUUUU the creator of this video, I know you are commenting and analysing what you got... just in case there is no confusion. This is my view of Jung not you.

The significance of the notion of "God", that God should live and die in a world like this, or that even God's countenance should witness such a scene, or even be responsible for its fundamental or even elaborated existence, is a significance that is as old and multiply varied in form, and quite often in as many contrary and contradictory ways, as is the history and prehistory of human thought itself. A small but significant domain of the human psyche entertains notions and relations of the personal, the social, and the transcendent, and in many forms... Yet what are the crises of modern men compared to the sufferings of a martyr. But what is the death or suffering of a martyr compared to that of a hero with no concern for a bad faith approach to worth, but finds some ineffable wellspring of "honor" to be his motive, or even just curiosity. These are not "modern" tendencies in persons or peoples, but the most ancient. Artificial structures built in bad faith on extortion and fraud will disintegrate, and then through that turmoil necessity will wreak vengeance vacant and indefensible pseudo-moralities and their icons and iconography. When the pinnacle of understanding and in sight of which a man is capable gains focus on such a brutal and fundamental fact of his historical and metaphysical reality, then he cannot but turn away from the drama of pretentious social manipulations clothed in divinity. The past and future, the sane and insane, must have functional isomorphisms that can trace through a structure, or they will obliterate all structures that get in their way in order to create a more authentic process. So the Will of Existence (in this form) assures us that it will continue with its brutality no matter what we think of it.

This is so good! This is an example of the information revolution's profound side. Can I ask you to please never start using AI for narration? AI has its place, but please inform us if you do choose to use it. Its getting harder and harder to discern. But it matters. On some level it affects us, even when we cant consciously catch it. We need human voices talking to us now. Thank you and thanks to everyone else that keeps engaging and expanding my mind. In stead of numbing it with bite sized and harmful dopamine hits. Big fan

God is dad lmao

Keep going.

I AM the creator, who I am is the creation. I AM there, for who I am... and others too I AM salvation so therefore who I am sets free I AM that which is, I am who will be Thou shalt not kill or rape Thou shalt not steal Thou shalt not covet for thy neighbor's house Thou shalt not commit adultery Thou shalt not bear false witness Honor thy father and mother Keep the day of rest holy I AM who I am, I am love and clarity I AM life, so I am that which is rest

I want to listen to you and james Lindsay talk about esotericism and theosophy and alchemy and Gnosticism

Thank you so much for this video. Coming back to Jung after such a long time. This has been with me for the past week now. Will you by any chance do anything related to Wittgenstein? Interested to know. :D

your voice is so relaxing

Outstanding

Do you plan on making a video about Hume or Wittgenstein at some point?

He wasn't mad.

I allmoust laughed mi arse off 😄..that frontpage

God is “An illusion derived from certain motives”- I like it

Can anyone name a philosopher in the last 200 years who HAS lived true to their philosophy? Genuine question.

And yet both men passed and lived (as all of us still do) with lots of internal anguish that never healed, but the concept of God existentially, emotionally and psychologically in my opinion has only expanded and strengthened. One just needs to look at the beauty of our world, the elegance of nature, the good things as well as the negative and even for example, the latest discoveries of the JWST telescope and one understands immediately that God didn't die. It is not a concept that belongs to one religion or creed, God is everything and everywhere. And I say this with total certainty while not being a religious person at all. Thanks for sharing this.

Turnabout is NOT fair play when Jung is holding himself up as some objective source who is conducting “science” whilst Nietzsche outright says he’s a poet and invites you to disagree with his interpretations

nietzsche: *goes mad jung: integrate the madness

1:00:31 human all to human, but Nietzsche himself is its object of critique.