“Denn, Ich liebe dich, o Ewigkeit!”… The Ring of Return is worn by Ariadne-Lou

Abstract

This text links from the biographical and intimate of Nietzsche to the deepest of his thought of the eternal return, because it is the only way to understand this thought of eternal return (in the material history of each one). And for this, certain of Nietzsche’s biographical milestones are discussed in the light of the work Thus Spoke Zarathustra and its link to Lou Salomé. We look at how Lou Salomé lies behind the mythical figure of Ariadne as the bearer of the ring of return; that is, through the feminine, Nietzsche shows us how the eternal return operates to free us from the chains of modernity.

Keywords

• Nietzsche
• Ariadne
• Dionysus
• Lou Salomé
• eternal return