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Abstract
Rudolf Steiner, the founder of anthro posophy and the author of Nietzsche, a man struggling against his time, in 1895, locates psychopathology over the very texts of Nietzsche as a higher instance in which itis possible for us to appreciate their actual meaning; thus, he medicalizes his whole work. In fact, the Steinerian conception swings between admiration and condemnation and is, among others in histime, one of the first in proposing a medicalizing view of Nietzsche'sphilosophy. Steiner's interest for the psychological view of the german thinker, with detriment to his philosophical message, would lead him to make serious mistakes in the understanding of his workin which he is unable to find a great value because he assumes that Nietzsche just repeated ideas he himself had already conceived.