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The Tenacity of the Intentional Prior to the Genealogy

The Tenacity of the Intentional Prior to the Genealogy I have argued elsewhere that the psychological aspects of Nietzsche&apos;s later works are best understood from a psychodynamic point of view. Nietzsche holds a view I dubbed <i>the tenacity of the intentional</i> (T): When an intentional state loses its object, a new object replaces the original; the state does not disappear entirely. In this article I amend and clarify T to T": When an intentional state with a subpropositional object loses its object, the affective component of the state persists without a corresponding object, and that affect will generally be redeployed in a state with a distinct object. I then trace the development of the tenacity thesis through Nietzsche&apos;s early and middle works. Along the way, I discuss a number of related topics, including the scope of the tenacity thesis (does it apply to all intentional states?), the reflexive turn one often finds in Nietzsche&apos;s examples (why does he so often say the new object is oneself?), and the relations among will to power, drives, and the tenacity of the intentional. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Journal of Nietzsche Studies Penn State University Press

The Tenacity of the Intentional Prior to the Genealogy

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I have argued elsewhere that the psychological aspects of Nietzsche&apos;s later works are best understood from a psychodynamic point of view. Nietzsche holds a view I dubbed <i>the tenacity of the intentional</i> (T): When an intentional state loses its object, a new object replaces the original; the state does not disappear entirely. In this article I amend and clarify T to T": When an intentional state with a subpropositional object loses its object, the affective component of the state persists without a corresponding object, and that affect will generally be redeployed in a state with a distinct object. I then trace the development of the tenacity thesis through Nietzsche&apos;s early and middle works. Along the way, I discuss a number of related topics, including the scope of the tenacity thesis (does it apply to all intentional states?), the reflexive turn one often finds in Nietzsche&apos;s examples (why does he so often say the new object is oneself?), and the relations among will to power, drives, and the tenacity of the intentional.

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The Journal of Nietzsche Studies – Penn State University Press

Published: Dec 4, 2010

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