Wednesday 26 October 2011

Nietzsche's shamanistic doubling

Nietzsche says, in the preceding passages, I am a decadent and also the opposite of a decadent. He then says:

"This dual series of experiences, this access to apparently separate worlds, is repeated in my nature in every respect. I am a Doppelgänger, I have a "second" face in addition to the first. And perhaps also a third."

(Nietzsche, "Why I am so Wise", Ecce Homo, Vintage Books, p 225).
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