ARTSSCI 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Friedrich Nietzsche, Ressentiment
14 Aug 2020
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Later becomes infatuated by the status that john brings him. He gets a sort of revenge against the director (his refusal to be infantile) But he becomes reconciled by his success (though he continues to criticize because that gives him a sense of self-importance) He later takes soma, everything he had tried to avoid. He"s fascinated by what john"s unconventional upbringing has turned him into. Different identities on many levels, also rooted in race. He seeks therapy in shakespeare and ascetic rituals. Helmholtz is interested in john because it"s of the soul, resonant with his own desires for self-expression (which bernard can"t understand, can only give descriptive accounts to mond, doesn"t understand the language that john and. He reads a new theory of biology - which he actually enjoys, but knows that if you start encouraging people to think in terms of purpose, they start asking questions; might uncondition people.
