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of becoming) and those who deny them (the illusion of being), just is the difference between the
Overman and the Cogito.
I have already argued that the univocal being is the beginning of critical philosophy. In
other words, the critical philosophy begins with difference and repetition. “The will to power is
the flashing world of metamorphoses, of communicating intensities, differences of differences,
of breaths, insinuations and exhalations: a world of intensive intentionalities, a world of
simulacra or ‘mysteries’. Eternal return is the being of this world, the only Same which is said of
this world and excludes any prior identity therein” (DR 243). Thus difference and repetition or
the will to power and the eternal return belong together. “This is the fundamental connection
between the eternal return and the will to power. The one does not hold without the other” (DR
243). Deleuze explains the Overman in relation to the will to power and the eternal return. We
have seen that the passage from the Overman is the kind of individual who never fully
individuates. In other words, he is always also the passive self. He remains fully grounded on the
earth. But what does this mean other than the Overman is the kind of individual who becomes
the intersection of difference and repetition. In other words, the Overman operates power of
difference. Because the will to power is singular, the Overman is the singular operator of the will
to power. “It is a question of attaining this will that the event creates in us; of becoming the
quasi-cause of what is produced within us, the Operator…beyond the general and the particular,
the collective and the private. It is a question of becoming the citizen of the world” (LS 148). It
must be clear what this operation consist it. The Overman operates the will to power as the
eternal return. In other words, that the Overman is capable of repeating just means that he
harnesses the power of difference. “And when Nietzsche presents the eternal return as the
immediate expression of the will to power, will to power does not at all mean ‘to want power’
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