P.P's Dream part I B #2

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

"Michael D. Workman" wrote:
> 
> Nietzsche's "spirit of gravity" should also be mentioned in this context.
> 
> http://www.itd.umich.edu/~alexboko/zar/third/third55.html


I would choose to mention "The Spirit of Gravity" in another
contex--not reality and dream, but and this happens to
dovetail with what Jack identifies as the propensity or
tendency for

"TRP's characters to try to replace frail human
parts with ivory or metal or stone--or to identify with
seemingly
omnipotent weapons, abstract theories, and non-human
robots.  Probably a
theme he picked up from Henry Adams, who calls it a primary
drive, one
underlying sex and religion."

This primary drive, one underlying sex and religion is
easily identified in Nieztche and Freud, this is one of the
reasons why Freud the "scientist" has often been compared
to  Nietzsche the "poet." 

"And especially that I am hostile to the spirit of gravity,
that is bird-nature:- verily, deadly hostile,supremely
hostile, originally hostile! Oh, whither hath my hostility
not flown and misflown! 

and

"This- is now my way,- where is yours?" Thus did I answer
those who asked me "the way." For the way- it doth not
exist!"

Thus spake Zarathustra.


As materialists, both Freud and Nietzsche have an underlying
reality and both also have principles that are elemental
(Nietzsche's will to power and Freud's psychic energy) and
can not be changed. So with a elemental principles in a
substrative reality we begin to see more commonality between
Freud and Nietzsche. What also invites us to compare
Nietzsche and Freud is that both contend that elemental
principles function in Conflict or necessary tension. 





TF