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str8_rippin123 t1_j44edlc wrote

Reply to comment by LupoBiancoU in Nietzsche is better understood as the Father of Psychoanalysis than Existentialism; his philosophy has two components: the diagnosis of our culture's Decadence (under the Ascetic Ideal) and a prescription for health in the Dionysian Counter-Ideal by thelivingphilosophy

I would say it may be worse: psychology today—particular it treats mental illness, the diagnoses of them, ect,.—seems to presuppose a type of equality of the psyche

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str8_rippin123 t1_j44d92c wrote

Reply to comment by Sylvurphlame in Nietzsche is better understood as the Father of Psychoanalysis than Existentialism; his philosophy has two components: the diagnosis of our culture's Decadence (under the Ascetic Ideal) and a prescription for health in the Dionysian Counter-Ideal by thelivingphilosophy

Schopenhauer predates both of them, to be honest. Nietzsches draws a lot of his psychology—in particular his theory of drives—directly from Schopenhauer. And a lot of the concepts that both Nietzsche and Freud elucidate, such as repression and rationalisation, are found—albeit to a lesser developed extent—in Schopenhauers works. Not to speak that Freud borrows his theory of sex from Schopenhauer and develops it further.

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str8_rippin123 t1_iwaispg wrote

Reply to comment by vestbirkw in A cross between an Existentialist and an Old Testament prophet, Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard urged his "single individual" reader to follow the "highest passion" of faith rather than becoming one of the stereotyped pseudo-individuals of "The Crowd" by thelivingphilosophy

Someone who was lecturing on Nietzsche wrote to Nietzsche asking him to meet so that they can read Kierkegaard together, I believe—but then Nietzsche went insane. It’s not surprising he never really heard of Kierkegaard to be honest, Nietzsche didn’t even know about Spinoza until he was 35ish

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