The Ecstatic and Terrifying of Ecstasy

Schopenhauer has depicted for us a tremendous terror which seizes man when he is suddenly dumbfounded by the cognitive form of phenomena. If we add to this terror, the blissful ecstasy that wells up from the innermost depths of man, indeed of nature, at this collapse of the individual principle, we steal a glimpse into the nature of the dionesian. There's a blissful element, an ecstatic element, there's a horrifying element, but it's also, lately, unstructured. You can't have a functioning society with it. And you can't have any kind of order and normalcy to life with it. The coming together of the two in tragedy is