{"id":1991,"date":"2025-12-03T12:15:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T12:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/?p=1991"},"modified":"2025-12-04T14:25:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T14:25:40","slug":"touching-nature-nietzsche-jung-and-the-reappraisal-of-eros-and-animality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/events\/touching-nature-nietzsche-jung-and-the-reappraisal-of-eros-and-animality\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Touching Nature\u201d: Nietzsche, Jung, and the Reappraisal of Eros and Animality"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Dr Tommaso Priviero (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Queen Mary University of London)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><b>Abstract:<\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">\n<p>Humanity\u2019s alienation from its animal roots was central to the intersecting perspectives of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and one of his most avid readers, the Swiss psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology, Carl Gustav Jung. Both thinkers posed the subjugation of the animal as the defining wound of Western consciousness: a rift intensified by Christianity\u2019s repression of the instincts and the industrial-technological idolatry of rationalism. While Nietzsche offered a crude diagnosis of the sickness of the modern individual, Jung\u2019s call to \u201ctouch nature\u201d invited a symbolic and experiential reconciliation with the instinctual life, within and without. This presentation traces how in the early twentieth century, with the rise of psychoanalysis, Jung\u2019s psychology (even more so than Freud\u2019s), contemporary ethology (Konrad Lorenz), and \u201cbiocentric\u201d thought converged toward a new image of the human as participant rather than master of nature. To \u201cbecome animal,\u201d in this context, evoked the urgent demand to rediscover intimacy with the living world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b>Modern Languages and Comparative Literature Research Seminar<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><b>Please direct any questions about this event to Dr Rachel Randall:\u00a0<\/b><b><u><a id=\"OWA916033c1-f944-00b2-a39a-fc101334672f\" class=\"x_OWAAutoLink\" title=\"mailto:r.randall@qmul.ac.uk\" href=\"mailto:r.randall@qmul.ac.uk\" data-linkindex=\"1\">r.randall@qmul.ac.uk<\/a><\/u><\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><b>Teams link:<\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><b><u><a id=\"OWAab85cca0-2eeb-0451-3d82-a0a084faf096\" class=\"x_OWAAutoLink\" title=\"https:\/\/teams.microsoft.com\/l\/meetup-join\/19%3ameeting_MzBlOWY2ZTQtYTRkZC00MThkLWE2ODQtODY1M2YwMDQ3YWI3%40thread.v2\/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22569df091-b013-40e3-86ee-bd9cb9e25814%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2229d24467-c273-4ada-9fd1-a5d2cecf729e%22%7d\" href=\"https:\/\/teams.microsoft.com\/l\/meetup-join\/19%3ameeting_YTEwNDQxODMtMTE2Mi00MDJiLTg5ZWMtYWNmODQyNDcxODc5%40thread.v2\/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22569df091-b013-40e3-86ee-bd9cb9e25814%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2229d24467-c273-4ada-9fd1-a5d2cecf729e%22%7d\" data-linkindex=\"2\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">MLCL Research Seminar: \u201cTouching Nature\u201d: Nietzsche, Jung, and the Reappraisal of Eros and Animality (Tommaso Priviero) | Meeting-Join | Microsoft Teams<\/a><\/u><\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Dr Tommaso Priviero (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Queen Mary University of London) Abstract: Humanity\u2019s alienation from its animal roots was central to the intersecting perspectives of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and one of his most avid readers, the Swiss psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology, Carl Gustav Jung. Both thinkers posed [&#8230;] <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/events\/touching-nature-nietzsche-jung-and-the-reappraisal-of-eros-and-animality\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":321,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1991"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2004,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions\/2004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}