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Madeline Taylor, PhD's avatar

Alice, thank you for this excellent thumbnail sketch of Nietzsche. Have you ever read Alice Miller’s hypotheses about the root cause of his suffering?

Alice Miller, a Swiss psychiatrist, wrote about her perspective on the childhood roots of Nietzsche’s later suffering. In THE UNTOUCHED KEY, she speculates that not only did Frederich lose his father and younger brother at an early age, but that his mother’s psychological impact on him made being his own person feel like an unforgivable betrayal, a crime punishable by mother’s rejection. Irreconcilable inner conflicts between his need for his mother’s approval and his need to find his own sense of self, is how Miller explains the agony of Nietzsche’s life.

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Rosemarie De Belen's avatar

Love it...

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