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Book SynopsisPosttraumatic Joy presents the major themes and ideas of Nietzscheâs corpus from a continental and psychoanalytic perspective with a particular bent toward how they might illuminate ways of coping with and living beyond trauma and suffering. Through a series of transcribed and edited lecturesâoriginally delivered as a part of the Nietzsche for Clinicians workshop run through the Center for Psychological Humanities and Ethics at Boston Collegeâthis work traces the genesis of such fundamental psychoanalytic concepts as repression, the death drive, and the Oedipus complex to the works of one of philosophyâs most audacious and original thinkers. Reading Nietzsche not as a philosopher in the traditional sense, but as a proto-psychoanalyst, a precursor to Freud and Lacan, this work explores his understanding of the origins of morality, the value of sublimation, the movement from mourning to melancholiaâor, in Nietzscheâs terms, from trauma to tragedyâand the possibility of a life
