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Apollonian

Relating to the individuating, rationalizing, and conscious principle in human society. The term was used by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. In The Birth of Tragedy (1872), his study of the origins of ancient Greek drama, Nietzsche contrasted the Apollonian principle with the Dionysiac, which he saw as collective, irrational, and lyrical.



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Later it was Nietzsche (1844-1900) who turned the relationship of the Apollonian and Dionysian poles in man upside down.
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He and Doris Humphrey, his mentor, spoke constantly about the contrast between Apollonian and Dionysian qualities.
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Oppositions of inside and outside, war and peace, life and death, Apollonian and Dionysian are questioned, but not all resolved, in these immaculately fabricated worlds.
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