Letters to Nietzsche

International Journal of Psychotherapy, 2002

This paper discusses the disputed asylum writing of Nietzsche's whose provenance is still unresolved. It argues that the marginalisation of this remarkable work is a further extension of Nietzsche's predicament, which was and is to be marginalised and rendered acceptable in merely conventional terms. Both this predicament and the work itself are of great interest to Psychotherapists and Post-modernists. Besides its compelling tragic story, and exposure of his relations with women including his incest with his sister, the signi cance which can be derived from the work itself (whoever it is by) is that it is one of the earliest examples of such positions as that of the later Wittgenstein, in relation to belief and xed ideology, which release us from the constraint of the requirement of objective belief basis. The author of this book applies this not only to cognitive beliefs, but to whole genres of writing, ways of life and free existential positions.

Auto/biography, 2006

IGDS eBooks, 2025

This book is about two diametrically opposed approaches to the truth--introspection and extrospection. Introspection was the mature approach of the famous philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. While this approach led to profound insights into his personal psychology, it prevented him from reaching his goal of revaluing all societal values, and it proved so traumatic that it caused the great thinker to lose his sanity. This high-risk, low-reward approach is contrasted with one in which truth is sought through an exploration of the outside world--namely the dynamic life-system, or strategic logos--enabling, among many other things, an understanding of the way societal values are formulated. In one of his last books "Nietzsche contra Wagner" (1888/1895), Nietzsche wrote about Wagner and himself that: "we are antipodes". The same could be said of Nietzsche and me. Yet this difference does not diminish the warmth of feeling I have for Fritz (as he was known to family and close friends), nor the immense respect I have for his dangerous and painful odyssey in search of the truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche's ethic of authentic or writer-side composition in such works as The Gay Science may provide a theoretical framework for innovating the forms and functions of academic works.

Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, 2019

This article focuses on the constellation of texts in which Derrida engages with the autobiographical question raised by Heidegger in his lectures on Nietzsche. It argues that Derrida takes this question (“Who is Nietzsche?”) as the point of departure not only of two diverging approaches to the problem of the signature of the philosopher, but also of the two texts that he devotes to the exploration of these approaches. In these texts, distancing himself from Heidegger, Derrida interprets Nietzsche’s treatment of his proper name as a new logic of the living and a new thought of self-reference.

Letter to His Father by Franz Kafka: Literary Reconstruction of a Traumatic Childhood? , 2018

Franz Kafka's Letter to His Father is one of the greatest examples in world literature of memory of a traumatic childhood. In it, the author takes a retrospective journey through his life, recollecting and analyzing the reasons for the estrangement and hostility between a father and a son. This essay considers Letter to His Father in the light of current knowledge about autobiographical memory. The essay first sets forth basic aspects of Kafka's life in order to place Letter to His Father in the context of Kafka's biography, and then presents Kafka's relevance to the literature and thought of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The essay then considers the different forms of childhood abuse and their consequences in light of evidence from neurodevelopmental psychology. We present evidence about the relationship between trauma and the construction of self-image. Furthermore, we discuss the subjectivity of Kafka's recollections from the perspective of recent advances in neurobiology. Memory is shown to be dynamic, selective, inherently malleable and dependent on perception, which is a subjective construction, in which the brain interprets and gives coherence to experienced stimuli. We consider the inaccuracy of memory, which is related to neuroplastic changes in the brain that take place over time: consolidation, reconsolidation and transformation. Finally, the relationship between literature and autobiography in the Kafkaesque universe is considered.