L'Illusione della Verità: Prospettive di Nietzsche e Jung sulla Menzogna e la Soggettività

If we were to make a textual analysis of Jungian writings, we could easily highlight the category of “dichotomy”, almost as a didactic literary genre in its own right: Person and Shadow, Ego and Self, Animus and Anima, Truth and Lie, Shadow and Light, Destruction and Creation... These apparent opposites are often literary devices that represent the importance of living a meaningful life and should be seen not as opposing entities but as complex and nuanced symbiotic aspects of the human psyche. In fact, each element of each dichotomous pair, like one side of the same coin or rather one side of a single polyhedron, both when united and when opposed, still represent powerful and inextricably linked forces within the human psyche; each element plays a role in our psychological and spiritual development, and understanding its deeper meaning can help us to live a more authentic and conscious life. Therefore, they should not be seen as rigid opposites, but rather as dynamic polarities that interact and influence each other, considering that the goal of Jungian psychology is to integrate these polarities in order to achieve balance and a more complete personality. This article aims to explore the relationship between Truth and Lie in particular, highlighting the influence of Nietzsche's work 'On Truth and Lies in an Extramoral Sense' (Über Wahrheit und Lüge im außermoralischen Sinn), written in 1873 but published in 1896, when Jung was 24, and comparing it, perhaps boldly but certainly fruitfully, to the Trickster Archetype and the relationship between Creativity and Destruction.