Freud's Will to Power: Intro: >>Legend has it
that Freud, although educated in the philosophies
of his day, studiously avoided the work of
Nietzsche to preserve the originality of his
ideas against external influence. Nietzsche's
analysis of the human psyche, how values were
supposedly projections of people's unspoken
jealousies and fears, ran dangerously close to
Freud's idea (still a work in progress at the end
of the 19th century) that the roots of conscious
behavior lay in unconscious desires. But after
reading Dr. Peter Kramer's outstanding new
biography of Freud (HarperCollins, 213 pages,
$21.95), one wonders if Freud feared something
else, not influence but self-knowledge, for Dr.
Kramer's Freud is practically the living
embodiment of Nietzsche's will to power. It's not
simply that Freud was incredibly ambitious. (At
age four, after soiling a chair, he reassured his
mother that he would grow up to be a great man
and buy her another.) Rather, it was Freud's
determination to systematize the world, to bring
order to chaos, and to impose his theory of life
on life itself a determination sso intense that
one of Freud's colleagues called it a "psychical need."<<
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