Both Uses of
perverse
in
Man And Superman
- Which leads us to the conclusion, astonishing to the vulgar, that art, instead of being before all things the expression of the normal sexual situation, is really the only department in which sex is a superseded and secondary power, with its consciousness so confused and its purpose so perverted, that its ideas are mere fantasy to common men.†
Chpt Ded. *
- No, perverse devil that you are, a thousand times no. Life was driving at brains—at its darling object: an organ by which it can attain not only self-consciousness but self-understanding.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(perverse) not what is expected, or considered proper
or: having the opposite effect of what is desired