Jared Russell in The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis and Philosophy, 2022
When Nietzsche saw that bourgeois morality, as the secular articulation of monotheistic guilt having become an insistence at fnding fault in the other for one’s own weakness and sufering would give rise to a pervasive nihilism that would defne our age to the point of consumption, he was warning us that the world was soon to become an unlivable, suicidal nightmare. Only the most deluded amongst us today – which is to say, and again as Nietzsche had predicted, the vast majority of us – would deny that he was correct in this pronouncement. We live in a world that has become unbearable, in which we are traumatically overstimulated to the point of exhaustion. The image of Nietzsche collapsing at the sight of a horse being beaten in Turin symbolizes what we are all living through at every moment of our contemporary lives – whether we know it or not – operating without any reliable sense that there is a sustainable future to come.
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Jared Russell in The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis and Philosophy, 2022
When Nietzsche saw that bourgeois morality, as the secular articulation of monotheistic guilt having become an insistence at fnding fault in the other for one’s own weakness and sufering would give rise to a pervasive nihilism that would defne our age to the point of consumption, he was warning us that the world was soon to become an unlivable, suicidal nightmare. Only the most deluded amongst us today – which is to say, and again as Nietzsche had predicted, the vast majority of us – would deny that he was correct in this pronouncement. We live in a world that has become unbearable, in which we are traumatically overstimulated to the point of exhaustion. The image of Nietzsche collapsing at the sight of a horse being beaten in Turin symbolizes what we are all living through at every moment of our contemporary lives – whether we know it or not – operating without any reliable sense that there is a sustainable future to come.
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