The Dialectic of Love And Hate. The Ecstatic As The Mediator

Authors

  • John Heaton Author

Keywords:

Love, hate, boundary, ambiguity, death, ecstatic, ritual, initiation. Love and hate are one of a large group of words depicting opposites, such as life and death, inner and outer, male and female, high and low. They depict a duality and the meaning of one depends on the other, for example

Abstract

Love and hate are a duality that can depict either opposite identities or differences growing from a common ground. This paper, following Nietzsche, explores the latter position as shown by Dionysos in the Bacchae. He introduced wine to mankind and is the god of the theatre. He dissolves and transcends boundaries and so destroys those who are fixated on any identity. He is the ecstatic god.

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Vol. 25 No. 2 (2014)

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Published

2014-07-01

Issue

Vol. 25 No. 2 (2014): Existential Analysis

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Articles