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“It is a mistake to say ‘I think’; one should say ‘I am being thought’ - forgive the wordplay. I is someone else. So much the worse for the wood which finds it is a violin.”
-- Arthur Rimbaud (1871) letter to Georges Izambard
This goes to the question of who deserves credit for the idea that the unified sense of self is an illusion created by a myriad of subconscious forces. Credit is usually parcelled to Freud and further back to Nietzsche, but Mr. Hayman exhibits this slightly earlier coinage, though it was not actually published until later. One can also see this as a response to Descartes’s “I think therefore I am”, as if to say, “Oh, really? And who is this ‘I’ that you speak of?”
[Source: Ronald Hayman, “Nietzsche: A Critical Life”]
-- Arthur Rimbaud (1871) letter to Georges Izambard
This goes to the question of who deserves credit for the idea that the unified sense of self is an illusion created by a myriad of subconscious forces. Credit is usually parcelled to Freud and further back to Nietzsche, but Mr. Hayman exhibits this slightly earlier coinage, though it was not actually published until later. One can also see this as a response to Descartes’s “I think therefore I am”, as if to say, “Oh, really? And who is this ‘I’ that you speak of?”
[Source: Ronald Hayman, “Nietzsche: A Critical Life”]
