A Estética Fisiopsicológica em Nietzsche: Uma Expressão da Vontade de Potência

Abstract

This thesis aims to consider the physiopsychological aesthetics as an expression of the Will to Power in Friedrich Nietzsche. The will to power is understood in its unconditional nature as the movement of accumulation and discharge of energy that knows no exception. Shielding itself in these notions, the will to power has space for a value hierarchy whose anti-teleological interpretation, that is, the beyond-man, seeks to intensify and surpass itself from the physiopsycological condition. In this sense, the hypothesis of this thesis is that Nietzsche's aesthetics is engendered in the most intimate labyrinths of the impulses of physiological predisposition, with grand style being the art that does not rely on reason, but on the creative will of the artist, which implies the creation from the will to power. In this way, the physiology of art can be interpreted as an investigation into the psychological and organic motivations that influence the artist in a creative outpouring of his instinctual forces through the numbing of the body's senses. By body we designate the configuration of forces that concur in order to determine the way in which something becomes. Thus considered, unlike the idealized world forged by tradition, which delegates the transience of life to error because it never corresponds to the need determined by "little reason", in art there is this world that does not deny becoming and that translates life as the tension of forces. The result of this tension is drunkenness. The intoxicated artist is, then, like the child who had the innocent and unpretentious courage to say yes to life.