The Dionysiac

In the same passage, schopenhauer has described for us the enormous horror which seizes people when they suddenly become confused and lose faith in the cognitive forms of phenomenal world. If we add to this horror the blissful ecstasy which arises from the innermost ground of man, indeed of nature itself. Whenever this breakdown of the principium individuations occurs, we catch a glimpse of the essence of the dionysia - best conveyed by the analogy of intoxication. These dionysiac stirrings, as they grow in intensity, cause subjectivity to vanish to the point of complete self forgetting. Yisilays, rock and rock. Go ishall yocan say it