Freud, Nietzsche and the Challenge to Positivism (Powerpoint and handout will be on the website)

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Freud, Nietzsche and the Challenge to
Positivism(Powerpoint and handout will be on the
website)
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• Mankind does not represent a development toward
  something better or stronger or higher, in the
  sense accepted today. Progress is merely a
  modern idea, that is, a false idea.
• Friedrich Nietzsche, Preface to The Antichrist
  (1888)

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• I have been careful to refrain from the
  enthusiastic prejudice that sees our civilization
  as the most precious thing we possess or can
  acquire, and believes that its path will
  necessarily lead us to heights of perfection
  hitherto undreamt of.
• Siegmund Freud, Civilization and its Discontents
  (1930)

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Friedrich Nietzsche
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Nietzsche at Shulpforta
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Jacob Burckhardt
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Richard Wagner
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Lou Salomé, Paul Rée, and Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche and Elisabeth
Förster-Nietzsche, 1899
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Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche welcomes Adolf Hitler
to the Nietzsche Archive, 1933
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Friedrich Nietzsche, draft of a letter to
Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, December 1887

• In the meantime I've seen proof, black on white,
  that Herr Dr. Förster has not yet severed his
  connection with the anti-Semitic movement. ...
  The separation between us is thereby decided in
  really the most absurd way. Have you grasped
  nothing of the reason why I am in the world?
  ... Now it has gone so far that I have to
  defend myself hand and foot against people who
  confuse me with these anti-Semitic canaille
  after my own sister, my former sister, and after
  Widemann more recently have given the impetus to
  this most dire of all confusions. After I read
  the name Zarathustra in the anti-Semitic
  Correspondence my forbearance came to an end. I
  am now in a position of emergency defense against
  your spouse's Party. These accursed anti-Semite
  deformities shall not sully my ideal!!

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Socrates (c. 470399 BC)
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Sigmund Freud
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Freuds Birthplace
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Josef Breuer and his wife
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Bertha Pappenheim (Anna O.)
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Jean-Martin Charcot
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Sigmund and Martha Freud
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Freuds Couch
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Alfred Adler
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Carl Jung
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Freud and Jung at Clark University, 1909
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Freud at his desk