ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the experience of the ecstatic-archaic in two key thinkers in the vitalist tradition, C.G. Jung (1875–1961) and Ludwig Klages (1872–1956), and in particular their readings of works by two major German writers, one—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)—usually associated with vitalism, the other—Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805)—hardly ever. 1 Using the intellectual frameworks offered by Jung and Klages as prisms through which to read these texts by Nietzsche and Schiller, this chapter seeks to make a contribution to uncovering the ecstatic dimension of the archaic. So first, Nietzsche.
