Abstract
Abstract The 74-year-old Marie-Louise von Franz is internationally recognized as one of the most loving and creative voices of analytical psychology. In this wide-ranging conversation with Donna Spencer and our editor, Ernest Rossi, Marie-Louise begins with a few highlights of the significance of Nietzsche's Zarathustra for an understanding of the current evolution of human consciousness. She helps us focus on the function of feeling as a guide through the maze of political and professional ideologies that can distort an individual's insight and ever unique way. If the ego chooses to parade as the “announcer” of unconscious. inspiration, then the unconscious becomes contaminated with human inadequacies and prejudices, because these had not previously been integrated into the conscious personality. The water of the unconscious spirit is muddied, so to speak, by personal and all-too-human contents and then overflows into consciousness. Jung analyzed Thus Spake Zarathustra in order to arrive at a clear disti...
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