3 of 3: Jung's Seminar on Nietzsche's Zarathustra

NOTE: New date.

This will be our Final Meetup (3 of 3) for this work.

REQUIRED READING ASSIGNMENT: Jung's Seminar on Nietzsche's Zarathustra. Edited by James L. Jarrett.

For this meetup, read from page 301 to the end.

Having wrestled directly with Nietzsche’s poetic and prophetic text, we have turned 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 the three sessions, we have been exploring 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**, in some manner,** by comparing and contrasting 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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