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awaiting its overcoming, its synthesis, as if it were another seed-blossom in Hegel’s progressive unfolding of Truth?
The strife endures: the living and the dying force, the power of Eros and Thanatos to create, to destroy (Freud). The perennial tensions between Blake’s innocence and experience are revisited in Hegel, Freud and Nietzsche’s Dionysian and Apollonian wills.21
Blake, a blast in western thought, is genuinely the “unknown” Philosopher-Poet a la Hegeliana, fathering Nietzsche, Freud and Lacan (the mirror stage: the other). If to Nietzsche and Blake tragic tensions promulgate exuberant creative energy, a buoyant life, to Freud and Lacan, they foster the split consciousness. The very irreconcilable division Blake deems the energy of life: the symmetries and asymmetries, the tragic strife in Hegeliana’s symphony of life, as she endures, ever seeking the Wondrous Way, journeying, ever so, the sorrowful ways of the Metaphysics of Necessity to victoriously pass Poiesis’ Gate, divine threshold of the Light Word, the Metaphysics of Splendor: white upon white, blossoming light 3⁄4 Sublime Eterna.
21 Nietzsche. Birth of Tragedy. Trans. Clifton P. Fadiman. New York: Dover Publications, 1995.
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