ABSTRACT
F. Nietzsche's idea about the state of mind "beyond good and evil" warrants more detailed discussion. The challenges of integration in Helen's nascent ascent to her mind are germane to the fundamental confusion between good and bad we regularly see at primitive levels of the personality. Wilfred Bion mentions the idea of an interpretation which is "death to the existing state of mind". His bold statement below would be at home in the pages of Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil. Nietzsche often railed against the hypocrisy of Christian values, not because its laws are immoral, but because they become immoral if universally imposed and obeyed rigidly—one might say "religiously"—rather than through the exercise of reason. These values become sterile and meaningless, as they are divorced from the mental intercourse between emotion and reason. Nietzsche's Zarathustra is transformed by his climb to the top of the mountain, a lonely journey in which he communed only with the animals of the forest.
