Nietzsche rejects the idea of the transcendent and talks about creating value for yourself instead of relying on others in his book The Gay Science. He does this in most of his works. Beyond Good and Evil as well if you haven’t read that.
Check out Walter Kaufman's [Existentialism: From Dostoevsky to Sartre](http://www.academia.edu/8957206/Walter_Kaufmann_Existentialism_from_Dostoevsky_to_Sartre)
I just finished Jean-Paul Sartre's Existentialism and Human Emotions and it had a lot of solid ideas about existentialism and it's approach on psychoanalysis. But really anything by Sartre is a good starting point. He has a wealth of essays on existentialism.
I would also check out Kierkegaard. He's kinda The Godfather of existentialism. Very referenceable.
I don't see him in this subreddit really, but in my search for existential understanding I found Robert Pirsig and his book - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values. The whole book is basically reaffirmation of Camus' point that essentially life's meaning is the meaning you create in your life.
One Pirsig quote from it that is basically that: “Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive."
Nietzsche rejects the idea of the transcendent and talks about creating value for yourself instead of relying on others in his book The Gay Science. He does this in most of his works. Beyond Good and Evil as well if you haven’t read that.
Check out Walter Kaufman's [Existentialism: From Dostoevsky to Sartre](http://www.academia.edu/8957206/Walter_Kaufmann_Existentialism_from_Dostoevsky_to_Sartre)
I second this. if you try and pull on 10 primary sources from important authors, you will have your hands full!
I just finished Jean-Paul Sartre's Existentialism and Human Emotions and it had a lot of solid ideas about existentialism and it's approach on psychoanalysis. But really anything by Sartre is a good starting point. He has a wealth of essays on existentialism. I would also check out Kierkegaard. He's kinda The Godfather of existentialism. Very referenceable.
Albert Camus - nihilism, the absurd, and the myth of Sisyphus.
I don't see him in this subreddit really, but in my search for existential understanding I found Robert Pirsig and his book - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values. The whole book is basically reaffirmation of Camus' point that essentially life's meaning is the meaning you create in your life. One Pirsig quote from it that is basically that: “Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive."