Nietzsche pro Christ In one of his final, mad letters to his friend the great historian Jacob Burckhardt, Nietzsche wrote that he had had Caiphas, the high priest who engineered the death of Jesus, placed in chains:pic.twitter.com/w0H4ohbxny
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Was he speaking metaphor, or just crazy?
The brain tumor was quite literal, I'm afraid.
The brain tumor was real, but is there any case of patients in a mentally impaired state communicating coherently through metaphor & symbol
If ‘inspired’ poetry is the art of making non-obvious connections between words and concepts to draw out profound significance, it’s easy to see a similarity with a damaged brain forced to route around dying areas and make new pathways to build meaning
Schizophrenia too occasionally produces very poetic or metaphorical prose, which may be the same phenomena - the brain forced to use non-apparent back channels between previously stored concepts
Right, or more simply: if my brain loses the word for sandwich because of impairment, will I still ask for one but by another name? & how often are these names related to the object or concept, even if remotely?
This is even more straining than when she said he extolled Socrates as the greatest type of man
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