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Nietzsche

A Philosophical Illumination or A Delusion?

Psychiatrist Eva Cybulska provides a psychological interpretation of Nietzsche’s Eternal Return.

“Even as ‘a philosopher’ I still did not express my essential thoughts (or ‘delusions’).”
Friedrich Nietzsche, in a letter to Overbeck, April 1883

“Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.”
Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

The influence of Friedrich Nietzsche on thought, literature and the art of the twentieth century has been beyond measure. His writings, lucid and highly provocative, are also exceptionally poetic and full of compelling imagery. And yet, there is something deeply disturbing, even morbid, in the form and the content of his ideas.

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