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NIETZSCHE'S
ZARATHUSTRA
NOTESOFTHESEMINAR
GIVEN IN 1934-1939 BY
C. G.JUNG
EDITED BY JAMES L. JARRETT
IN TWO VOLUMES
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 1
INTRODUC'riO!\ IX
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS XXll
A NOTE ON THE TEXT XXlll
MEMBERS OF THE SEMINAR XXI\'
LIST OF BIBLIOGRAPHIC ABBREVIATIOI'\S XXVI
SPRING 1934
I. 2 May 1934 3
II. 9 May 1934 21
III. r6May1934 ;)8
sG
IV. 23 May 1934
V. 6 June 1934 72
VI. 13June 1934 91
VII. 2oJune1934 110
VIII. 27 June 1934 129
AUTUMN 1934
I. 10 October 1934 149
II. 170ctober1934 166
III. 24 October 1934 183
IV. 31 October 1934 202
V. 7 November 1934 219
VI. 14 November 1934 23tl
VII. 21 November 1934 246
VIII. 28 l\'"ovember 1934 263
IX. 5 December 1934 281
X. 12 December 1934 300
WINTER 1935
I. 23January 1935 323
II. 30 January 1935 339
III. 6 February 1935 356
IV. 13 February 1935 :n2
V. 20 February 1935 388
VI. 27 February 1935 4°7
CONTENTS
VII. 6 March 1935 424
VIII. 13 March 1935 441
SPRING 1935
I. 8 May 1935 457
II. 15 May 1935 474
III. 22 May 1935 489
IV. 29 May 1935 so6
v.
sJune 1935 523
VI. 12June 1935 541
VII. 19June 1935 561
VIII. 26 June 1935 s8o
AUTUMN 1935
I. 16 October 1935 6o1
II. 230ctober 1935 619
III. 30 October 1935 638
IV. 6 November 1935 658
v. 13 November 1935 677
VI. 20 November 1935 692
VII. 27 November 1935 712
VIII. 4 December 1935 729
IX. 11 December 1935 748
Volume 2
WINTER 1936
I. 22 January 1936 767
II. 29January 1936 786
III. 5 February 1936 804
IV. 12 February 1936 821
v. 19 February 1936 840
VI. 26 February 1936 857
VII. 4 March 1936 873
SPRING 1936
I. 6 May 1936 893
II. 13 May 1936 911
III. 20 May 1936 926
IV. 27 May 1936 946
v.
3June 1936 965
VI
CONTENTS
VI. 10 June 1936 983
VII. 17June1936 1000
VIII. 24June 1936 1019
SPRING 1937
I. 5 May 1937 1037
II. 12 May 1937 1055
III. 19 May 1937 1075
IV. 26 May 1937 1093
v. 2 June 1937 1113
VI. 9June 1937 1132
VII. 16 June 1937 1149
VIII. 23June 1937 1170
IX. 30 June 1937 1189
SPRING 1938
I. 4 May 1938 1209
II. 11 May 1938 1230
III. 18 May 1938 1248
IV. 25 May 1938 1264
v. 8 June 1938 1281
VI. 15June 1938 1298
VII. 22 June 1938 1317
AUTUMN 1938
I. 19 October 1938 1339
II. 26 October 1938 1355
III. 2 November 1938 1372
IV. 9 November 1938 1389
V. 16 November 1938 1404
VI. 30 November 1938 1421
VII. 7 December 1938 1437
WINTER 1939
I. I8January 1939 1457
II. 25January 1939 1475
III. 1 February 1939 1493
IV. 8 February 1939 1512
V. 15 February 1939 1528
REFERENCES TO THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF Tftus Spake
Zarathustra 1545
INDEX 1547
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INTRODUCTION
In the Spring of 1934, Dr. C. G. Jung brought to a conclusion a semi
nar at the Zurich Psychological Club which had been running since Oc
tober 1930. The subject matter with which Jung and his students
practicing analysts, those training to be analysts, and selected analy
sands-had engaged themselves was visions, more especially the re
markable painted visions of an American woman, Christiana Morgan.
As this final term drew to a close, the question arose as to what the next
seminar should center upon, for by now the importance-almost the
necessity-of such a lecture/discussion series was well established. Be
fore Visions, there had been the Dreams Seminar, and so on back to
1923-perhaps even earlier-whenJung started this kind of teaching
for a very particular audience. In 1934 the group apparently had little
hesitation in deciding upon Nietzsche as their new topic, and more
particularly Nietzsche's strange and wonderful Thus Spake Zarathustra.
And so it was that when the group, some of whom had dropped out
and been replaced by others, convened in May, it was to hear their
mentor's warning that they all had an uphill and rocky path before
them, for not only was Nietzsche's mind highly convoluted and de
vious, but his Zarathustra particularly so, with a style invented for this
very purpose-whatever that was! But nothing daunted, they set to,
and as in previous seminars, the excitement grew as their leader (who
loved mountains) began to ready them for ajourney that was destined
to end before its natural culmination, drowned out by the alarms of
war as the fateful summer of 1939 approached.
By this time another feature of the seminars was also familiar: the
recording of the lectures and discussions. A professional secretary had
been engaged to take notes, which in turn were edited by Mary Foote
with the help of various members of the group, virtually all of whom
were taking their own notes. Bound multigraphed copies of these
notes were then made available to the participants, and to others as
sociated with Analytical Psychology, but each "volume" bore a warning
that the report was intended for the exclusive use of "members of the
Seminar with the understanding that it is not to be loaned and that no
part of it is to be copied or quoted for publication without Prof. J ung's
written permission."
An important reason for this restriction was undoubtedly Jung's not
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