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Two Opposed Forces Drive Art
- Nietzsche frames Apollinian and Dionysian as two opposed artistic forces that drive art’s development.
- Their antagonism is productive and culminates in Attic tragedy when reconciled.
Apollonian Is Image; Dionysian Is Time
- Apollinian correlates with visual, image-based arts (sculpture, painting) that fix a moment in time.
- Dionysian correlates with music and temporal, non-imagistic experience that unfolds in time.
Dreams And Intoxication As Models
- Nietzsche asks us to grasp these forces via dream (Apollo) and intoxication/ecstasy (Dionysus).
- Dreams give image-illusion; intoxication destroys individuation and yields self-forgetting.