Will and Repetition

On the model of Experience being developed here, Will introduces novelty into Experience. On that basis, a repetition is the outcome of an effort to reproduce as closely as possible an object of a previous representation. In other words, as Deleuze argues, Repetition is a mode of Difference, the ground of which has been suppressed by the pervasive chronic Parmenidean interpretation of it. Furthermore, since 'to will a recurrence' is only one way of formulating 'to Will a repetition', the interpretation of the theory of Eternal Recurrence, regardless of how Nietzsche intends it, as positing the perpetual repetition of identical events, suppresses Will just as much as the Parmenidean tradition does.