Carl Jung was a psychologist whos work included the selective unconscious, introversion/extroversion, and archetypes. Throughout his work, he was fascinated by the work that Nietzsche had done in his field. He even states in one of his works "Memories and Dreams, Reflection Reveals" that "The meaning of my existence is that life has addressed a question to me. That is a supra-personal task, which I accompany only by effort and with difficulty. Perhaps it is a question which preoccupied my ancestors, and which they could not answer? Could that be why I am so impressed by the problem on which Nietzsche foundered: the Dionysian side of life, to which the Christian seems to have lost the way?" (Jung, 1965 [1961], p. 350) . Nietzsche often influenced Jung's work. Nietzsche helped to provide Jung with the terminology (the Dionysian) and the case study (Zarathustra, for example) to help him create his ideas and theories.
Jung, C. G. (1965 [1961]). Memories, dreams, reflections. New York: Random House. - See more at: http://www.depthinsights.com/Depth-Insights-scholarly-ezine/e-zine-issue-3-fall-2012/jungs-reception-of-friedrich-nietzsche-a-roadmap-for-the-uninitiated-by-dr-ritske-rensma/#_ENREF_10
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