Philip K Dick and Stanislaw Lem were among many postmodernist science fiction writers to be influenced by Nietzsche theory of eternal recurrence. Nietzsche’s explains the theory of eternal recurrence in “The Gay Science” as; “ This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable amount of times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence.” (Nietzsche, 272)
It is the concept that human beings live and die in succession, constantly in repetitions, and infinitely. The notion that it is our existential curse to recur our life, over and over, across all time and space. Nietzsche suggests that existence is nothing more than the repetition of the same, and the substance of life is our “Will to Power.” The ultimate goals of existence are the notion of “Will to Power” is human beings strive for power, achievement. Lem’s “Solaris” and Philip K Dick’s “Do Android Dream of Electric Sheep” and “VALIS” are novels that discuss Nietzsche theory of …show more content…
In the wisdom that Sophia shared, Phil realizes the of the occurrence of same, when he is informed that death has come to the little girl Sophia. Phil decides to let go of Fat and leaves him to keep on searching for the same image of Messiah elsewhere. Sophia provided an explanation to existence, that God is within ourselves and we can transcend to a higher consciousness; “In the depths of the collective the archetypes slumber; if aroused, they can heal or they can destroy. This is the danger of the archetypes; the opposite qualities are not yet separated. Bipolarization into pairs opposites does not occur until consciousness occurs.” (Dick 1968,
It is the concept that human beings live and die in succession, constantly in repetitions, and infinitely. The notion that it is our existential curse to recur our life, over and over, across all time and space. Nietzsche suggests that existence is nothing more than the repetition of the same, and the substance of life is our “Will to Power.” The ultimate goals of existence are the notion of “Will to Power” is human beings strive for power, achievement. Lem’s “Solaris” and Philip K Dick’s “Do Android Dream of Electric Sheep” and “VALIS” are novels that discuss Nietzsche theory of …show more content…
In the wisdom that Sophia shared, Phil realizes the of the occurrence of same, when he is informed that death has come to the little girl Sophia. Phil decides to let go of Fat and leaves him to keep on searching for the same image of Messiah elsewhere. Sophia provided an explanation to existence, that God is within ourselves and we can transcend to a higher consciousness; “In the depths of the collective the archetypes slumber; if aroused, they can heal or they can destroy. This is the danger of the archetypes; the opposite qualities are not yet separated. Bipolarization into pairs opposites does not occur until consciousness occurs.” (Dick 1968,