Apollo & Dionysus II: Camille Paglia’s Sexual Personae

For Nietzsche, the Apollonian and the Dionysian are ‘elemental forces’ that arise, predominantly, in art, and disposes the artist toward either the visionary (Apollo) or the orgiastic (Dionysus). It is not until his last (and unfinished) manuscript that Nietzsche applies these forces to ordinary life — but even here, he brings it back to the artistic impulse: