How should we live with our suffering? Can we save ourselves from it through knowing? Are we doomed to self-deception? Or can we save ourselves through illusion and fantasy -- whether on the public stage or in the private theater of our mind? Nietzsche and Freud offer parallel answers to these questions, both drawing on the tragic story of a clever king, Oedipus, who could investigate and understand everything but himself.

Recommended Readings: Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy

https://www.amazon.com/Nietzsche-Tragedy-Writings-Cambridge-Philosophy/dp/0521639875

Freud's On Dreams

https://www.amazon.com/By-Sigmund-Freud-On-Dreams/dp/B00N4G1B5U