# Self-overcoming

- Id: `self_overcoming`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/self-overcoming/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `0237089d6631b88c92e2936aa1b577225a632813f3f126667af4190230fbca28`

## Summary

Self-overcoming is the work by which a person reshapes inherited habits, ideals, and forces into a more demanding form, not a license to dominate other people.

## Overview

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 3,611 passages across 31 works, including Relativity: The Special and General Theory, German Edition, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:nietzsche.twilight_idols:b0139",
    "passage:nietzsche.case_wagner:b0001",
    "passage:nietzsche.beyond_good_evil:b0062"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "dépassement de soi",
    "self-overcoming",
    "selbstüberwindung",
    "überwinden"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 31,
    "passages": 3611,
    "thinkers": 4,
    "traditions": 3
}
```

## Related traditions

```json
[
    {
        "id": "science",
        "name": "Science and scientific thought",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/science-and-scientific-thought/"
    },
    {
        "id": "psychology",
        "name": "Psychology and psychoanalysis",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/psychology-and-psychoanalysis/"
    },
    {
        "id": "modern-philosophy",
        "name": "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/modern-and-contemporary-philosophy/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

```json
[
    {
        "id": "einstein.relativity_popular_de",
        "title": "Relativity: The Special and General Theory, German Edition",
        "author": "Albert Einstein",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/einstein/relativity-popular-de/"
    },
    {
        "id": "freud.jenseits_lustprinzips",
        "title": "Beyond the Pleasure Principle",
        "author": "Sigmund Freud",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/freud/jenseits-lustprinzips/"
    },
    {
        "id": "freud.der_witz",
        "title": "Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious",
        "author": "Sigmund Freud",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/freud/der-witz/"
    },
    {
        "id": "freud.traumdeutung",
        "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams",
        "author": "Sigmund Freud",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/freud/traumdeutung/"
    },
    {
        "id": "freud.drei_abhandlungen",
        "title": "Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality",
        "author": "Sigmund Freud",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/freud/drei-abhandlungen/"
    },
    {
        "id": "jung.psychologische_typen",
        "title": "Psychological Types",
        "author": "Carl Gustav Jung",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/jung/psychologische-typen/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.zarathustra_1",
        "title": "Thus Spoke Zarathustra I",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/zarathustra-1/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.zarathustra_2",
        "title": "Thus Spoke Zarathustra II",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/zarathustra-2/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.zarathustra_3",
        "title": "Thus Spoke Zarathustra III",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/zarathustra-3/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.zarathustra_4",
        "title": "Thus Spoke Zarathustra IV",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/zarathustra-4/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.david_strauss",
        "title": "David Strauss",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/david-strauss/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.antichrist",
        "title": "The Antichrist",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/antichrist/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.case_wagner",
        "title": "The Case of Wagner",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/case-wagner/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.birth_of_tragedy",
        "title": "The Birth of Tragedy",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/birth-of-tragedy/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.gay_science",
        "title": "The Gay Science",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/gay-science/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.dionysian_dithyrambs",
        "title": "Dionysian Dithyrambs",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/dionysian-dithyrambs/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.ecce_homo",
        "title": "Ecce Homo",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/ecce-homo/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.new_year_word",
        "title": "A New Year's Word",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/new-year-word/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.twilight_idols",
        "title": "Twilight of the Idols",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/twilight-idols/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.idylls_messina",
        "title": "Idylls from Messina",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/idylls-messina/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.beyond_good_evil",
        "title": "Beyond Good and Evil",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/beyond-good-evil/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.human_all_too_human_1",
        "title": "Human, All Too Human I",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/human-all-too-human-1/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.human_all_too_human_2",
        "title": "Human, All Too Human II",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/human-all-too-human-2/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.daybreak",
        "title": "Daybreak",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/daybreak/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.nietzsche_contra_wagner",
        "title": "Nietzsche contra Wagner",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/nietzsche-contra-wagner/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.wagner_bayreuth",
        "title": "Richard Wagner in Bayreuth",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/wagner-bayreuth/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.schopenhauer_educator",
        "title": "Schopenhauer as Educator",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/schopenhauer-educator/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.socrates_greek_tragedy",
        "title": "Socrates and Greek Tragedy",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/socrates-greek-tragedy/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.use_abuse_history",
        "title": "On the Use and Abuse of History for Life",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/use-abuse-history/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.genealogy_morality",
        "title": "On the Genealogy of Morality",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/genealogy-morality/"
    }
]
```