@JLNobody,
JLNobody wrote:
Indeed, he had so much insight into human behavior and motivation that Freud is said to have said that Nietzsche knew himself better than any other man who had ever lived [My source's hyperboly not mine]. Nevertheless, many have argued that Freud failed to give credit for many insights taken from Nietzsche. Some have even accused Freud of plagerism in this regard.
Freud did read a lot of Nietzsche, but from my library of Freud which is pretty extensive, he does not give a lot of credit to Nietzsche... He shares with Nietzsche and others such as Baudelaire, a rejection of rationalism as a guide of human behavior... He does not reject it entirely... Let me offer some words from Thomas Mann on Freud:
NIetzsche's quarrel with the socratic hostilityto instinct gratified our prophets of the unconscious, even while they feel that his psychological method debars him from true understanding of the myth and from finding his way about in the "holy twilight of primeval time"; but through NIetzsche down to our own time there flows the nineteenth century stream of anti-rationalistic tendency--- in some cases indeed, not so much through him as over and beyond him. . .
Of course the prophets of the unconscious refers to Freud in part..
And Again: "We may," says Freud, "emphasize as often as we like the fact that the intellect is powerless compared with the impulse in human life ---we shall be right. But after all there is something peculiar about this weakness, the voice of intellect is low, but it rests not until it gets a hearing. In the end, after countless repulses, it gets one after all. "
I see that as a difference between Freud, and Nietzsche who rejected the Apollonian in art for the Dionysian out right; and in his own words "With what high hopes must we greet the auspicious signs... in our own era, namely the gradual reawakening of the Dionysian spirit! . . . I refer to German Music, in its mighty course from Back to Beethovan, and from Beethovan to Wagner."
It should be remembered that Dionysus was the god of frenzy and revelry in drama while Apollo was the god of measure and form in poetry...