Tra desiderio e paura. L'abisso come Abgrund nello Zarathustra di Nietzsche

The paper aims at analysing some aspects of the indissoluble connection between desire and fear, which structures the concept of abyss [Abgrund] in Nietzsche’s Zarathustra. In this text the Abgrund is not thought merely as an unfathomable [Unergründliches], i.e. as a lack of foundation – a bottomless to be understood as a chasm, a precipice –, but as a primary belonging to the event of the abyss. The only chance to be able to think this abyss is to investigate a new way of considering the concept of desire, no longer as an attempt to fill the void of a lack that arises from a sense of indigence, but as a creative drive of the will to power that arises from an excess of fullness and pushes to create despite the void.