Date: Sat, 27 May 1995 11:04:54 -0800
From: demarest-AT-hevanet.com (Marc Demarest)
Subject: Re: Eventually - memory yields.



Rich wrote:

>I would say that in addition to its importance to Nietzsche's thought, 
>this little aphorism prefigures Freud's idea of repression: pride (we can 
>perhaps say ego here) refuses to admit some of the more sordid or 
>socially disapproved acts into consciousness, thus memory eventually does 
>yield...Okay I just looked that up in BGE--Kaufmann has a little footnote 
>about Freud on this aphorism, so I guess I'm not too damn original on 
>that note.
> 

Or perhaps superego. In fact, in someone's translation (Hollingdale, I
think), the 
opposition is between memory and *conscience*, which strikes me as more apt,
and the 
last line is not "Eventually, memory yields: but "At last memory yields" 
(if memory serves ;->) which I think better captures the tension N was
trying to capture --
the long struggle between memory and forgetting/repression.


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Marc Demarest
demarest-AT-hevanet.com

At that moment, the art of resisting words becomes useful, the art of saying
only what one wants to say, the art of doing them violence, of forcing them
to submit. In short, it is a matter of public safety to found a rhetoric, or
rather, to teach everyone the art of founding his own rhetoric.

Francis Ponge, "Rhetoric"



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