Think(-)Being vol. 2 no. 4

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(Kierkegaard 39). Without the manner in which psychoanalysis’s infinite resignation makes the subject “transparent to [one]self ”, the grounds for deterritorialization could not exist; for psychoanalysis reveals the infinite that underlies the phenomenological finite, and deterritorialization makes it practically accessible. But there must first be belief that one can satisfy desire despite the laws of the Symbolic Order’s exclusion of the possibility, and in

this, deterritorialization starts with a variation on the leap of faith. Without it, the line of flight could not exceed the seeming impasse arrived at by psychoanalysis. Faith drives one to pushes onwards—despite possible failure—by virtue of the absurd, for one believes they will get what they desire despite the Symbolic Order’s prohibition of it....

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On The Birth of Tragedy

by Tugana Perk One of the biggest enemies of Greek tragedy and the Dionysian is Socrates because he thinks, “to be beautiful everything must first be intelligible.” Socrates needs an explanation for everything and tries to turn the experience of feeling the art, in my opinion, into a mathematical formula. He continuously commits the crime of wisdom against nature. The problem is that Socrates thinks tragedy is agreeable but not useful. Socrates once said, “Virtue is knowledge, all sins arise from ignorance, the virtuous man is the happy man.” In this quote of his lies the death of tragedy.

When comparing the Dionysian chorus of tragedy to the new Socratic optimistic stage world, the Dionysian chorus looks arbitrary. The optimistic dialect drives the music out of tragedy and destroys the essence of tragedy.

Nietzsche dislikes Socrates because of his scholarly way of thinking and because of killing Greek tragedy and the Dionysian.

Socrates is more in favor of the Apollo and thinks that for something to be art it does not have to be tragic. I disagree and I agree with Nietzsche because art is a form of expressing what human beings feel and an emotion cannot be portrayed as perfect. An emotion cannot be boxed up, every single feeling we have is unexplainable because it comes from within and the human body and brain is a complex system that is nothing at the core but everything at the same time. Every human being is chaotic deep down and no one is a robot. Some people in life choose a moral path, a path with rules, those people are the ones who cannot experience the Dionysian tragedy.

Christianity is the best example of the perfect enemy against tragedy according to Nietzsche.

He despises Christianity because it gives people the option of escaping pain and suffering. People cannot enjoy their actual life in the moment because they are fixated on the after life. Christianity gives people a reason to experience tragedy, paying their dues, when there should not be a reason. They escape and do not truly experience tragedy because they think there is an after life and they are waiting for everything to be okay. That way of thinking also prohibits people from living in the moment because they are invested in the after life. Also, Christianity is the only religion to give God a face, Jesus, this lets in death and chaos. Jesus is sort of like an Apollo figure. Jesus’ death is not tragic and you do not feel sorrow because his death only takes a second and he has already moved on to the after life. Christianity in my opinion is an escape from reality, and I completely agree with everything that Nietzsche says about it. It gives people the option of thinking everything is going to be alright at the end but that is a lie! People need to be aware of the fact that everything at the end is not going to be okay, it is going to be sorrowful and everyone needs to embrace the tragedy and find joy in it. When the joy is found it should go hand in hand with suffering, otherwise once the joy is found and the suffering is forgotten that it is no longer tragic. background image: Santiago Gallego

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