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===<small>''The Untouched Key'' <small> (''Der gemiedene Schlüssel'', 1988) </small>===

This book was partly a [[psychobiography]] of [[Nietzsche]], [[Picasso]], [[Käthe Kollwitz|Kollwitz]] and [[Buster Keaton]]; (in Miller's later book, ''The Body Never Lies'', published in 2005, she included similar analyses of [[Dostoyevsky]], [[Anton Chekhov|Chekhov]], [[Schiller]], [[Rimbaud]], [[Yukio Mishima|Mishima]], [[Proust]] and [[James Joyce]]).

According to Miller, Nietzsche did not experience a loving family and his philosophical output was a metaphor of an unconscious drive against his family's oppressive theological tradition. She believed that the philosophical system was flawed because Nietzsche was unable to make emotional contact with the abused child inside him. Though Nietzsche was severely punished by a father who lost his mind when Nietzsche was a little boy, Miller did not accept the [[genetics|genetic]] theory of madness. She interpreted Nietzsche's psychotic breakdown as the result of a family tradition of Prussian modes of child-rearing.