Even though Nietzsche was already famous by the time he died, is there any truth to Sigmund Freud’s claim that Friedrich Nietzsche was the first man to “psychoanalyze Jesus Christ”?
By: Ringo Bones
If the famed father of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud really
did say that Friedrich Nietzsche was “the first man to psychoanalyze Jesus
Christ”, he probably never said it to the faces of fundamentalist Christians. By
the time he died in 1900, Friedrich Nietzsche was already world famous. Amateur
psychologists have tried to “explain” him, but Sigmund Freud – the founder of
psychoanalysis – said: “several times said of Nietzsche that he had a more
penetrating knowledge of himself than any other man who ever lived or was
likely to live.” according to Ernest Jones, Sigmund Freud’s biographer. And in
his published work, Freud remarked that that Nietzsche’s “premonitions and
insights often agree in the most amazing manner with the laborious results of
psychoanalysis.” With Sigmund Freud’s high opinion of Friedrich Nietzsche, is
it even possible that Nietzsche could have been the first man to “psychoanalyzed
Jesus Christ”?
Nietzsche’s main conceptions – even to the novice – centers around
deconstructing organized Christianity. As Jesus Christ is a supposed adherent
of “teaching by example”, Nietzsche wonders – maybe still – on why Jesus Christ
never spoke about the two broad distinctions of morality – namely master
morality and slave morality - during his lifetime when what is now the state of
Israel was under the rule of the Roman Empire. With organized Christianity’s
still “wonky” moral code 2,000 years later, it seems that this oversight by
Jesus Christ is the main reason why Friedrich Nietzsche branded Jesus Christ as
an “existentialist pauper”.
Wasn't this mentioned in Friedrich Nietzsche's book titled The Antichrist? Though I haven't finished it yet.
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