In January 1889, Nietzsche sent a flurry of brief letters, switching his signature to “Dionysus” and “the Crucified.”

 In January 1889, Nietzsche sent a flurry of brief letters, switching his signature to “Dionysus” and “the Crucified.” Acts of self-identification appear—such as the note to Cosima, “Ariadne, I love you — Dionysus.” This is not an affirmation of reincarnation but a linguistic operation: a self-reenactment achieved by donning and shedding names-as-roles and by traversing addressees; it belongs to a different register from the doctrine of eternal recurrence.


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