Creativity and madness, sparked by the intrusion of unconscious symbolism, arise from the same feminine depths--what Jung, following Goethe, called the realm of the Mothers. Which one triumphs depends on the strength of the ego under the onslaught of unconscious contents. The developmental course of that ego, and its archetypal aspects, are charted here, in a psychobiography that ventures into the realm of the Mothers so that the creativity and the madness of Friedrich Nietzsche can be better understood.
Drawing upon classical, archetypalist, and developmental approaches, Dr. Ostfeld...
Creativity and madness, sparked by the intrusion of unconscious symbolism, arise from the same feminine depths--what Jung, following Goethe, called...
