Growing Pains, Plurality, Dichotomy

In Birth of Tragedy #24, Nietzsche conceives Dissonance as a dichotomous condition--the juxtaposition of painful individuation, and joyous dissolution of individuality.  However, as the production of musical dissonance evinces, the phenomenon of Dissonance is itself  Pluralistic--a relation among a variety of sounds, none of which is dominant.  Now, Dissonance can be more precisely analyzed as a certain combination of Attraction and Repulsion among its components.  But such a combination is not unique to the extraordinary Tragic moments that are the concern of BT--it also constitutes the more mundane experience often characterized as 'growing pains', in which parts of an organism repulse, while countered by the attractive effort of retaining integrity.  In contrast, the Will to Power has the capacity for only a Dichotomous interpretation of the transition--one condition overcoming another--in which lacking is an explanation of the maintaining of the unity of the organism.