Daily Epiphanies, Musings & More - I
“The artist creates his own elite, and the elite its own artists.” -E.H. Gombrich, Art & Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation
L’oeil Du Peintre by Salvador Dalí (1941)
Some short thoughts on art, aesthetics, the self & more-
The aesthetic of pleasure when liberated from unrefined materiality, harmonizes with numerical relations in the imaginative object.
Abstract art challenges the deception that life continues, and simultaneously it is a method for that stylish separating that conservative dream does not accomplish anymore.
Basically, an individual is hopelessly on the off chance that they neglect to be completely a self. Attention to the vacancy of self outcomes in that feeling we regularly call despair. I suppose this is what Kierkegaard half-century later than Nietzsche realises about the self.
The existence of the soul isn't the existence that exists from death and is kept up with by destruction, however, it is the existence that realizes how to confront it & remain in it. The soul possibly vanquishes its reality when it can end up in an outright tear.
A symbiosis of Wilson's 'Group Selection' & Dawkin's 'Gene Selection' might as well map out an applied genealogy hence, providing thorough data across all sentients as they continue to exist.
An inquiry into self-consciousness is a key factor in deciphering what the self is at a fundamental level. Self-consciousness seems to be aware of the self to itself.. Dan Zahavi divided the same into two types 1) pre-reflective type, & b) reflective type which is interesting.
Jung expounded a hypothesis of the Archetype as Collective Unconscious- appointing a Creature w/ a Significant job in Dreams, Fantasies & Human Collectivities. An entire way to deal w/ the Fantasy that follows from this is an issue of coordinating it onto its prototype series.
The past needs to be actively exceeded more than it needs to be actively rationally fathomed.
It’s crazy how much we attempt to condition our experience of the future while the present already conditions our immediate experience which further conditions our future for ourselves. Hence, we’re truly never in charge of our experiences & how they are affectively carved.
There exists intentionality around the Self, the Self which is intentionality in itself.
So Nietzsche’s bitterness towards women in the last parts of TSZ (Part-I) seems to be influenced by his frightening experiences w/ Lou Salomè who he was in love with.. I had to dig into— “Andreas-Salomè & Nietzsche: New Perspectives” (Seminar 36:1, pp. 79-76, 2000).
-Sanjana Singh | 08.12.2021