# Chapter 89 explained — Beyond Good and Evil

> Chapter companion for Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche.

## What happens

A single, stark aphorism questioning the nature of the experiencer in relation to dreadful experiences, suggesting a potential identity between the sufferer and the suffering.

## Themes in this chapter

### Psychology as the Fundamental Science

The aphorism exemplifies a psychological investigation, probing the character of the subject through the nature of their experiences.

## Character check-ins

### The Narrator

Poses the probing, psychological question about the nature of the self in relation to suffering.

## Key lines

> Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them is not something dreadful also.

Extreme suffering forces us to ask if the person enduring it is themselves defined by or a source of that dreadfulness.

_Links the quality of experience directly to the character of the individual._

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