New Date: Jung's Seminar on Nietzsche's Zarathustra (1 of 3)

NEW DATE: Tuesday, May 5, 2026.

REQUIRED READING ASSIGNMENT: Jung's Seminar on Nietzsche's Zarathustra. Edited by James L. Jarrett. For this meetup, read the Foreword through end of Spring Term, May/June 1935. Page V11 to page 151.

This three-part meetup continues our collective inquiry into Nietzsche and Jung, following our previous one-time meetup devoted to reading and discussing Thus Spake Zarathustra.

Having wrestled directly with Nietzsche’s poetic and prophetic text, we now turn to C.G. Jung’s abridged edition of his Seminar on Nietzsche’s Zarathustra, drawn from the original lecture series Jung delivered between 1934 and 1939. These seminars form one of the richest sources for Jung’s mature thinking and deeply inform the foundations of Analytical Psychology.

Across three sessions, we will explore how Nietzsche’s ideas in Zarathustra—the Übermensch, eternal recurrence, the death of God, and the revaluation of values—sustain and provoke Jung’s concepts of individuation, the Self, the shadow, and the tension of opposites. Jung approaches Zarathustra not merely as philosophy, but as a psychological drama expressing the fate of modern consciousness. Each meetup will combine close reading, open discussion, and reflective dialogue, linking Nietzsche’s visionary language to Jung’s symbolic and clinical insights.

I hope to conclude by comparing Nietzsche’s Zarathustra with Jung’s Red Book: two perilous inner journeys shaped by imaginal encounter, myth-making, and confrontation with the unconscious—one prophetic and philosophical, the other therapeutic and psychological—each risking transformation at the limits of the modern soul.

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Nietzsche's Zarathustra: Notes Of The Seminar Given In 1934-1939

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