"I have given a name to my pain, and call it 'a dog,'--it is just as faithful, just as importunate and shameless, just as entertaining, just as wise, as any other dog--and I can domineer over it, and vent my bad humor on it, as others do with their dogs, servants, and wives."
— Nietzsche, Friedrich (1844-1900)
Work Title
Date
1882
Metaphor
"I have given a name to my pain, and call it 'a dog,'--it is just as faithful, just as importunate and shameless, just as entertaining, just as wise, as any other dog--and I can domineer over it, and vent my bad humor on it, as others do with their dogs, servants, and wives."
Metaphor in Context
My Dog. I have given a name to my pain, and call it "a dog,"--it is just as faithful, just as importunate and shameless, just as entertaining, just as wise, as any other dog--and I can domineer over it, and vent my bad humor on it, as others do with their dogs, servants, and wives.
Categories
Provenance
Reading Elaine Scarry's The Body in Pain. New York and Oxford: OUP, 1985. p. 11.
Date of Entry
11/25/2005
Date of Review
07/10/2009
