ABSTRACT
Prof. Jung: Ladies and Gentlemen: Our last seminar dealt with the 26th chapter
of Zarathustra, the chapter about the priests, but before we go on I want to make a few remarks for the benefit of those who have not been here before. Zarathustra is a very ticklish subject, but it was the wish of certain members of our seminar that I should deal with it. I felt rather hesitant because it is a pretty ambitious task. I admit it is highly interesting psychological material, but it is long and for certain reasons it is exceedingly difficult to deal with. Of course the fact that it is difficult is no reason against dealing with it; on the contrary, a difficult case is always very much more interesting than a simple and easy one. Zarathustra is Nietzsche's most significant work. He expresses in it something which is really himself and his own peculiar problem. His most productive years were the eighties of the past century and in many ways he is the child of his time, yet he is also the forerunner of times that have come since and of times that are still to come.
