/lit/ - Literature

What are the best books you've read about women/the female gender?
Is Schopenhauer a meme in that regard, or worth checking out?

How come there are so few, perhaps none, who have actually followed into Nietzsche's footsteps? Who read his works, agreed with it and what the man had to say and applied themselves towards self-mastery, self-overcoming and the creation of the overman? Mishima is rather popular here, but even he self-admittably was a failure. The Germans and French of the 20th century read Nietzsche, but quickly utilized him towards their own ends. There is barely any Nietzsche left in them. Are there any authentic Nietzscheans who developed his philosophy further?

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>mfw recovering alkie

Why anyone would consider being a drunkard virtuous is something I’ll never understand.

My being is shattered at its core. I feel a disorder of reason, of spirit, a pathological chaos. A trifecta of motivations contradicts itself. On the one hand the technological-instrumental reason, which strives for my own well-being as biological being, then the moral self, which strives for the good for the human and universal rationality, lastly the striving for beauty. And it is the latter that exerts the greatest pathological pressure on me, because beautiful is not only what is useful or good, beautiful is everything that escapes this world and radiates the semblance of perfection. Death and violence can be beautiful, even if they contradict self-preservation and moral action. The worst thing about this is that I lack the courage to devote myself completely to the beautiful, because there is no rational, only some intuitively given reason for me to focus completely on it.

Which philosophy can help me to free myself from my anhedonia? It must be profound and explain the circumstances of my suffering, not just motivational or circumscriptive to be able to truly help me.

>...we find a cluster of traits that may be understood as a pugnacious intimidation through which the individual (as Freud described in connection with the oedipal struggle) competes with parental authority - and later in life uses the position of authority both to feel safe and to obtain what he wants.

>To the extent that competitive usurpation is involved, there is guilt, fear of retaliation, and a perpetuation of paranoid insecurity. Belonging in this category are, aside from the denouncing of authority and the competitive wish to stand in the place of authority, "argumentativeness," "criticality," "skepticism," and "cynicism."

>Along with these I have listed the descriptors "they think they know the right way," "pressuring others to conform," "bombastic," "bluffing," "strong," "courageous," and "grandiose."

what are some books where the character is like this? i am looking for characters that are paranoid, aggressive, and megalomaniac. characters like macbeth, for example.