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ut, on the contrary: whatever you will, carry it to the ‘nth’ power - in other words, separate out
the superior form by virtue of the selective operation of thought in the eternal return, by virtue of
the singularity of repetition in the eternal return itself. Here, in the superior form of everything
that is, we find the immediate identity of the eternal return and the Overman (DR 8). We have
seen that this operation of the will to power as repetition takes the form of sensibility. In other
words, repeating is in the first instance a sensing, a sensing that develops concepts. “Difference
in the will to power is the highest object of sensibility, the hohe Stimmung, sensed against the
laws of nature (remember that the will to power was first presented as a feeling, a feeling of
distance). A thought contrary to the laws of nature, repetition in the eternal return is the highest
thought, the gross Gedanke.” (DR 243). We arrive at this point. The Overman is the kind of
individual who repeats the power of difference. However, this means that the Overman is the
kind of individual who affirms his own difference. He is the kind of individual who becomes.
“That is why the Overman is defined as the superior form of everything that ‘is’. We must
discover what Nietzsche means by noble: he borrows the language of energy physics and calls
noble that energy which is capable of transforming itself” (DR 41). This is the connection
between chapters five and six and chapter seven. The difference and repetition that Deleuze talks
about is the operation of the Overman.
In order for the individual to repeat, that is, to harness the power of difference that
individual must not be the spontaneous individual. “Repetition in the eternal return never means
continuation, perpetuation or prolongation, nor even the discontinuous return of something
which would at least be able to be prolonged in a partial cycle (an identity, an I, a Self) but, on
the contrary, the reprise of pre-individual singularities which, in order that it can be grasped as
repetition, presupposes the dissolution of all prior identities” (DR 201-202). In other words, in
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