PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHIATRY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS - NIETZSCHES CASE

In this work dedicated to Frederic Nietzsche, we were first interested by the philosopher's personal psychopathology. Biographic and persona lity factors, the physical and moral pain, the mood variations, hypers ensitivity solitude and finally megalomanic traits have probably contr ibuted to the development of his thought. Nietzsche gave personal inte pretations of his own suffering. Freud himself recognized the organic component of the philosopher's illness. We reviewed the different symp toms in favor of a progressive general paresis. Philologist and morali st, Nietzsche was also a << psychologist >>. His intuitions in this ar ea often preceded and prepared those of Freud. The relationship is sur prising on certain points such as love and sexuality, the unconscious, the interpretation of dreams. We wish to remind readers that a prepsy choanalytic stream of thought, at the End of the 19(th) century, prece ded the teaching now ascribed to Freud and his followers.