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Apollinian and Dionysian Perspective

[…] Nietzsche accentuates that the development of art depends largely on the duality of two forces, namely, Apollinian and Dionysian that constitute the dichotomy between creation and destruction. Apollo’s illusory world with unified imagery, which indicates ‘things as mere phantoms or dreams’ (1967:34), stands here for a mimetically represented world. On the other hand, we have a Dionysian force inextricably linked with an intuition, natural instincts and ‘profound emotions that overstep and dissolve all limits’ (Sallis, 1970:92). A sense of intoxication can be obtained from the negation of social and cultural barriers and the acceptance of flux of life in which an individual is a dynamic living wholeness. If we take into account a cultural perspective of the European thinking, the second force is always overshadowed by Socratic metaphysics, which is represented here as mere appearance. Inevitably, a scientific harmony is closely associated with the conception of high-brow art, whereas the primordial unity is linked with common, every day aspects and natural instincts subjugated by cultural forms. […]

I took this from this website about the two perspectives which I actually searched because of this TED talk from Dan Phillips on ‘Creative houses from reclaimed stuff’