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Perhaps a new war, too? And are new idols sounded out? This little essay is a great declaration of war and regarding the sounding out of idols, this time they are not just idols of the age, but eternal idols, which are here touched with a hammer as with a tuning fork: there are no idols that are older, more assured, more puffed-up and none more hollow. This essay the title betrays it is above all a recreation, a spot of sunshine, a leap sideways into the idleness of a psychologist. There are more idols than realities in the world: that is my 'evil eye' upon this world that is also my 'evil ear.' Finally to pose questions with a hammer, and sometimes to hear as a reply that famous hollow sound that can only come from bloated entrails what a delight for one who has ears even behind his ears, for me, an old psychologist and pied piper before whom just that which would remain silent must finally speak out. Increscunt animi, virescit volnere virtus.Īnother mode of convalescence (in certain situations even more to my liking) is sounding out idols.

A maxim, the origin of which I withhold from scholarly curiosity, has long been my motto: War has always been the great wisdom of all spirits who have become too introspective, too profound even in a wound there is the power to heal. Every means is proper to do this every 'case' is a case of luck. Excess strength alone is the proof of strength.Ī revaluation of all values: this question mark, so black, so huge that it casts a shadow over the man who puts it down such a destiny of a task compels one to run into the sunlight at every opportunity to shake off a heavy, all-too-heavy seriousness. Maintaining cheerfulness in the midst of a gloomy task, fraught with immeasurable responsibility, is no small feat and yet what is needed more than cheerfulness? Nothing succeeds if prankishness has no part in it. Of an Untimely Man + What I Owe to the Ancients + The Hammer Speaks

Great Errors + The 'Improvers' of Mankind + What the Germans Lack + Skirmishes

How the 'True World' Finally Became a Fable + Morality as Anti-Nature + The Four Preface + Maxims and Arrows + The Problem of Socrates + 'Reason' in Philosophy + Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences Wiley Nietzsche : Twilight of the Idols Die Götzen-Dämmerung - Twilight of the IdolsĪnd the translations by Walter Kaufmann and R.J. Nevertheless, the word psychotherapeutics, slightly modified into âpsychotherapy,â remains in constant use up to this day and became almost a slogan in the years between the two World Wars. Tuckeyâs book âPsychotherapeutics, or Treatment with Sleep and Suggestion.â Miss Cobbeâs article is rather a provocation for discussion and attack on âmaterialistic naIvet6â of the physician of her time, who refuses to accept the idea of the healing power of the Word. Cobbe who was perhaps the first lady to use the word âPsychotherapeutics.â The crucial sentence is as follows: âWho will step forward and help to clear the way for this science of Psychotherapeutics?â Two years later the same word appeared in the title of C. This may be true when the âContemporary Reviewâ in 1887 published the article of Miss F. I n many of us, a new word creates a feeling of elation which may easily change into a feeling that discovery has been made, new field found, new ground taken and it is as if an act of revelation has happened.

The beginnings of psychotherapy The beginnings of psychotherapy

The melancholy of all things done fallacy