The Tragedy of Psychology: Rollo May's Daimonic and Friedrich Nietzsche's Dionysian
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References
Rollo May, Love and Will, New York: Norton, 1969.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy and The Case of Wagner, trans. Walter Kaufmann, New York: Random House, 1967.
Carolyn Morell, "Love and Will: A Feminist Critique" in Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Vol. 13, no. 2 (Spring, 1973), pp. 35-46; Rollo May, "Response to Morell's Article," Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Vol. 13, no. 2 (Spring, 1973), pp. 47-50. May writes: "Love and Will does suffer from unintentional sex prejudices. So does every other book written by a man (and most books written by women) in that period...I had not known of the depth of powerlessness of women" (p. 47).
May Love and Will, p.123.
Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy, p.36. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780791481127-004
May, Love and Will, p.138.
Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy, p.37. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780791481127-004
May, Love and Will, p.123.
Ibid., p. 127
Ibid., p 146
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, in The Portable Nietzsche, ed. Walter Kaufmann, New York: Viking, 1954. p. 146.
May, Love and Will, p. 126.
Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy, p. 42. The quote is from Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonnus, lines 1224 ff. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780791481127-004
Ibid., p. 43.
Ibid.,p.41.
Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, in The Portable Nietzsche, p.487.
Ibid.
May, Love and Will, p. 138.
Ibid., p. 123.
Although May does not mention it, his "schizoid" personality has much in common with Kierkegaard's Aesthete.
May, Love and Will, p. 46.
Ibid., p. 131.
Ibid., p. 129.
Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, in The Portable Nietzsche, p. 487.
May, Love and Will, p. 122. May cites Rilke, Letter 74, Briefe aus den Jahren 1907 bis 1914, and says Rilke wrote this "on withdrawing from psycho therapy after learning the goals to which it aspired." DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2912499
Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, in The Portable Nietzsche, p. 486.
Nietzsche, The Gay Science, in The Portable Nietzsche, pp. 98-99. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511812088.005
May, Love and Will, p. 126.
Ibid., pp. 149-50.
Ibid., p. 128.
Ibid.
Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, in The Portable Nietzsche, p. 496.
May, Love and Will, p. 163.
Ibid., 177.
Nietzsche, The Will to Power, trans. Walter Kaufmann and R. J. Hollingdale, New York: Random House, 1967, p. 539.
May, The Discovery of Being: Writings in Existential Psychology, New York: Norton, 1983, p. 83.
May, The Art of Counselling: How to Gain and To Give Mental Health, New York-Nashville: Abingdon-Cokesbury, 1939.
May, The Springs of Creative Living: A Study of Human Nature and God, New York-Nashville: Abingdon-Cokesbury, 1940.
Rollo May, Ernest Angel, and Henri F. Ellenberger, Existence: A New Dimension in Psychology and Psychiatry, New York, Basic Books, 1958. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/11321-000
Walter Kaufmann, Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950.
Nietzsche, The Gay Science, New York: Random House, 1974.
May, "Nietzsche's Contribution to Psychology," Symposium, Vol. 28 (1974), pp. 58-73. My thanks to Sarah Young of Regent's College for providing me with a copy of this paper on short notice. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0074180900235705
May, The Cry for Myth, New York: Norton, 1991., p. 11.
May, Love and Will, p. 147.
Ibid., p. 142.
Dr. Robert Abzug, personal communication, November 11,1995, London, England.
May, The Discovery of Being, p. 84.
Rene Descartes, Discours de la méthode/Discourse on the Method, ed. George Heffernan, Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 1994, p. 41.
May, Freedom and Destiny, New York: Dell, 1981, p.18.
Ibid., p.19.
Ibid.
Ibid., p.20
Ibid., pp. 20&21.
Ibid., p. 23.
Stanley Edgar Hyman, "Psychoanalysis and the Climate of Tragedy," in Benjamin Nelson (ed.), Freud and the 20th Century, Cleveland: World Publishing, 1957, pp. 167-85. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/11504-011
Ibid., p.171.
Ibid., p. 185.
