Aphoristic Writings, Notebook, and Letters to a Friend, by Otto ...

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The neurasthenic’s sin is namely space; the criminal’s (ongoing) time. That is why
time is always the problem 28 of the criminal, space always the problem of the
neurasthenic.
Space arises with the body. Here is the expression of the end in itself (Nietzsche).
The neurasthenic’s sin is his body: he hates it. His sin is style.
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Pleasure is physical, joy mental. The neurasthenic’s sin is wanting to become
good only through suffering.
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The interior of the body is very criminal.
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Neurasthenia = Space 29 = externalisation = duplicity = insanity = flawed logic
(logic is spatial rather than temporal) = becoming unfree through external sensation =
positing the not-real as real.
Crime = time = lie (from cowardice) = directed against God = positing the real
as not-real.
Shortsightedness = idiocy? = fish?
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Space is the completely outwardly fragmented I.
28 the main issue, or primary dilemma. [Trans]
29 The same thing which manifests itself psychologically as neurasthenia and crime externalises itself
transcendentally as space and time. [Rappaport]
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