FREUD, NIETZSCHE AND THE CHALLENGE TO POSITIVISM
QUESTIONS
 Who was Nietzsche?
 What are his key theories?
 Who was Freud?
 What are his key theories?
WHO WAS NIETZSCHE?
Leipzig
Schulpforta
philology
Basel
Jacob Burckhardt
Richard Wagner
The Birth of Tragedy
Human, All Too Human
Thus Spake Zarathustra.
Lou Salomé
On the Genealogy of Morals.
The Will to Power.
The Twilight of the Idols
The Antichrist
Ecce Homo
Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche
Weimar
WHAT ARE NIETZSCHE’S KEY THEORIES?
Socratic
ressentiment
Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil: ‘A living thing seeks above all to discharge its
strength — life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect
and most frequent results’
Übermensch
eternal recurrence
Lewis Call
WHO WAS FREUD?
Moravia
The Interpretation of Dreams
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
“Oedipus complex”
Elektra complex
WHAT ARE FREUD’S KEY THEORIES?
The Ego and the Id
Ego, super-ego, and id
conscious, unconscious, and preconscious
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
“I found in myself a constant love for my mother, and jealousy of my father. I
now consider this to be a universal event in childhood.”
the life drive (Eros) (incorporating the sex drive)
the death drive (Thanatos)
Libido
Nirvana Principle
Civilization and its Discontents