apollonian vs dionysian nightlife
Drunkenness (or intoxication) is a whole different experience but, like the world of dreams, it is an experience based on illusions or misrepresentations of reality. Drunken reality is instinctive. Unlike the structured, ordered illusion of the dream, drunkenness is deeply emotional and irrational. Within this chaotic reality, the subject is... See more
What Is the Apollonian and Dionysian in Nietzsche’s Philosophy? | TheCollector
The nature of the ecstatic is animalistic. A visceral, body-centered reaction, not a cerebral one. It doesn’t have to make sense. It is not meant to be understood. It is there to guide us.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
The first art-world is the dream-world . The dream-world is related to the experience of... dreaming. For Nietzsche’s philosophy, the dream-world is one of a cheerful acquiescence. Our dreams are filled with illusions. However, the very fabric of these illusions draws us in, to the point where, sometimes, we attempt to keep dreaming even if we... See more
What Is the Apollonian and Dionysian in Nietzsche’s Philosophy? | TheCollector
In The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche also described a rival cult – defeated, suppressed, and all but forgotten – that had worshipped the God Dionysius. The followers of this cult embraced music, dance, and sexuality. Whereas the Apollonians valued thinking and reasoning, the Dionysians celebrated the realms of feeling and the senses. Nietzsche... See more
apollonian vs dionysian nightlife
We are literal, scientific, rational, surface-oriented, and fast-paced. Yet without imagination, the world becomes arid. Mythopoetic language is magical; it brings worlds into being. Stories of warriors hunting the windswept plains, gods who trick and deceive, maidens transformed into sea monsters, and spiders that weave the web of life have long
... See moreJoanna LaPrade • Forged in Darkness: The Many Paths of Personal Transformation
We must also point out that this “intensity of encounter” is not to be identified with what is called the Dionysian aspect of creativity. You will find this word Dionysian used often in books on creative works. Taken from the name of the Greek god of intoxication and other forms of ecstasy, the term refers to the upsurge of vitality, the abandon,
... See moreRollo May • The Courage to Create
the Apollonian represents order, discipline, structure, planning ect. Whereas the Dionysian represents the passions of the moment, raw unbridled emotion, and one's chaotic impulses.
The Dionysian is what you feel when you wake up to a beautiful sunrise, that urge that calls you to rush into a lover's arms, that rage you feel when a loved one... See more
The Dionysian is what you feel when you wake up to a beautiful sunrise, that urge that calls you to rush into a lover's arms, that rage you feel when a loved one... See more