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The Fragmented Nietzschean Subject and Literary Criticism: Conflicting Images of Woman in Jacobsen's "Arabesque to a Drawing by Michelangelo"

The Fragmented Nietzschean Subject and Literary Criticism: Conflicting Images of Woman in... peter bornedal TheFragmentedNietzscheanSubject and Literary Criticism Conflicting Images of Woman in Jacobsen’s ‘‘Arabesque to a Drawing by Michelangelo’’ AnartistisasortofSisyphusthatiscompelledtorollastonetothetopof a slope. But for himself the stone always escapes him near the top and rollsdownagain,althoughonewouldprefertohaveanaudience that believes that it has stayed at the top. —J. P. Jacobsen, letter to Axel Helsted, 1880 the fragmented nietzschean subject Structural versus Dynamic, Diachronic versus Synchronic When Nietzsche addresses the question of subject and mind, he always assumes a dynamic model of the psyche. A dynamic representation, in contrast to a structural or topographical one, depicts something as a flow in time, as ever-changing be- coming. On this level of representation, various features of the mind have no actual existence in a topographical sense; they have no existence as identifiable entities. If topographical and structural representations depict something in spatial terms, dynamic representation depicts something as movement or a fluctuation of forces. As an example of the two modes of representation, we may resort to an ordinary political world map. Great Britain, for example, is well defined and easily identified on a map of Europe. Suppose that instead of defining Great Britain as a nation, we define it as where British citizens happen to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Comparatist University of North Carolina Press

The Fragmented Nietzschean Subject and Literary Criticism: Conflicting Images of Woman in Jacobsen's "Arabesque to a Drawing by Michelangelo"

Bornedal, Peter.
The Comparatist , Volume 30 – Apr 26, 2006
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peter bornedal TheFragmentedNietzscheanSubject and Literary Criticism Conflicting Images of Woman in Jacobsen’s ‘‘Arabesque to a Drawing by Michelangelo’’ AnartistisasortofSisyphusthatiscompelledtorollastonetothetopof a slope. But for himself the stone always escapes him near the top and rollsdownagain,althoughonewouldprefertohaveanaudience that believes that it has stayed at the top. —J. P. Jacobsen, letter to Axel Helsted, 1880 the fragmented nietzschean subject Structural versus Dynamic, Diachronic versus Synchronic When Nietzsche addresses the question of subject and mind, he always assumes a dynamic model of the psyche. A dynamic representation, in contrast to a structural or topographical one, depicts something as a flow in time, as ever-changing be- coming. On this level of representation, various features of the mind have no actual existence in a topographical sense; they have no existence as identifiable entities. If topographical and structural representations depict something in spatial terms, dynamic representation depicts something as movement or a fluctuation of forces. As an example of the two modes of representation, we may resort to an ordinary political world map. Great Britain, for example, is well defined and easily identified on a map of Europe. Suppose that instead of defining Great Britain as a nation, we define it as where British citizens happen to

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