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Friedrich Nietzsche’s Homosexuality and Schizophrenia
Author(s)
Robert Dole
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2019.04.004
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Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada
ABSTRACT
This article proposes a new hypothesis about Nietzsche’s life and thought. It suggests that the repression of his homosexuality explains both his hatred of Christianity and his descent into insanity. His Biblical religiosity was a fundamental aspect of his essential self, like his homosexuality. He waged a relentless war against both. Yet one cannot be in a permanent battle with oneself without eventually becoming insane.
KEYWORDS
Nietzsche, homosexuality, schizophrenia
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