Introduction: A Demonic Thought for a
Start
PART I: NIETZSCHE--ETERNAL RETURN
1. "What if ...?" Willing Suspension of Disbelief
2. Scientific Disbelief: Attempt at Exorcism
3. Inspiration, Appropriation, Transformation
4. Time and Its "It Was"
5. Tragedy: Apollo/Dionysus
6. Necessity, Amor Fati
7. Zarathustra: His Own Worst Enemy?
PART II: FREUD--COMPULSIVE REPETITION
8. Eternal Return in Everyday Life
9. Eternal Return in Transference
10. Compulsive into Metaphor
11. The Myth of Er: Eternal Compulsion into Image
12. Thanatos: What if Eternal Return were Instinctual?
13. Transference Analysis: Healing the Wound of Time
PART III: ETERNAL RETURN REVISITED
14. The Myth of Archetypal Ontology
15. The Uncanny
16. The Double
17. Soul and Image: Archetypal Psychology
Epilogue: To Find a Good Book to Live In
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index