![]() ![]() It seems as if nature had implanted into every mind an inalienable part of the primordial chaos, and as if this part were interminably striving - with tense passion - to rejoin the superhuman, suprasensual medium whence it derives. “Daemonic” - this word has had so many connotations imposed upon it, has been so variously interpreted, in the course of its wanderings from the days of ancient religious mythology into our own time… I term “daemonic” the unrest that is in us all, driving each of us out of himself into the elemental. That is why we can only have a tragic view of the enchantment of life, but that is also why tragedy is the symbol of enchantment.įrom Stefan Zweig’s The Struggle with the Daemon: Hölderlin, Kleist, Nietzsche: ![]() Reproduction and death condition the immortal renewal of life they condition the instant which is always new. ![]()
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