Art theorist Anton Ehrenzweig's understanding of creativity elaborates on how artists require a certain ego "dedifferentiation" (as they submit to a certain influence of Thanatos – the death instinct) followed by a reconstitution of their vision (by means of Eros) :
This psychological dynamic described above exemplifies the meaning of Zarathustra saying: "I love those who do not know how to live except their lives be a down-going, for they are those who are going across."
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Of course, just as we have pew sitters supporting child rape in the Catholic Church, we also have Establishment 'Nietzscheans' who sit very still on their perches whilst proclaiming that the above quote represents Nietzsche's surreptitious trick for getting rid of those among us who are "mediocre" -- those who, needless to say, are not perch sitters.
I have suggested that Thanatos, the death instinct, could be made responsible for the self-destructive effect of dedifferentiation a temporary decomposition of the (depth) ego; abstract thought can be seen as a success of Eros, the life instinct […] (Ehrenzweig 1967: 284).
This psychological dynamic described above exemplifies the meaning of Zarathustra saying: "I love those who do not know how to live except their lives be a down-going, for they are those who are going across."
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Of course, just as we have pew sitters supporting child rape in the Catholic Church, we also have Establishment 'Nietzscheans' who sit very still on their perches whilst proclaiming that the above quote represents Nietzsche's surreptitious trick for getting rid of those among us who are "mediocre" -- those who, needless to say, are not perch sitters.
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