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there are two interpretations of that primordial phenomenon and only when you do the two interpretations of the primordial phenomena do you get the full bad conscience the primordial phenomenon is torturing yourself that is the primordial phenomenon is the phenomena of aggression turned against itself that's the central phenomena Nietzsche says that's the reality people need to turn their aggression against themselves for whatever reason for the moment that in itself doesn't give you folk bad conscience because that phenomenon needs to undergo two processes first a process of internalization that is turning my aggression against myself can take any number of forms it can take the form of self-harm for example as you know that people when I was growing up people didn't talk about this but now there is this phenomenon that's kind of recognized medical phenomenon or self-harm you know young people cutting themselves up and inflicting pain on themselves and various sorts of things I mean it's one of those things you know there are fashionable vices you know I mean there aren't just fashionable virtues there are fashionable crimes and vices you know when I was growing up there wasn't any such thing as so if people didn't worry about child molesting I mean some there were there weren't categories for these things and self-harm also I mean you know you might occasionally hear of someone who committed suicide but you didn't have this phenomenon of a cult cultivated phenomenon which was the object of intense interest of piercing and body things etc so
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YL6mSkSERxQ&t=1672s&pp=2AGIDZACAQ%3D%3D geuss, nietzsche lectures 5/7 zur genealogie der moral but but so Nietzsche says so there's directing your attention sorry directing your aggression against yourself then there's a process in which that directing the your aggression against yourself becomes internalized not externalized I don't direct migration against myself by cutting myself up but by internally generating a kind of psychic or mental pain that's one process so and then the second process is a process in which that internalized mechanism of inflicting pain on myself becomes connected with morality I can I can inflict mental pain on myself in a way that's not necessarily moral so the full phenomenon of morality is absurd the full phenomenon of bad conscience is you start with a kind of mechanism of self a need from whatever reason to up to to inflict your aggression on yourself that's internalized so that instead of cutting yourself you have bad thoughts or you you suffer depression or you suffer headache you have whatever whatever is and then that's connected with morality so that's what Nietzsche then talks about
willowFeb 21, 2025
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