ABSTRACT
The Constantin Constantius's "report" in the first half of Repetition, however, takes place entirely in the existence sphere of the aesthetic, so that it is without the inbuilt ethical "seriousness" of Judge William's reflections. Constantius further remarks that although such a penchant for the theater is a mark of immaturity, it comes back at a later stage, when the soul has integrated itself in earnest. A simple narrative begins: "One enters the Konigstadter Theater and gets a place in the first balcony, for relatively few sit there, and in seeing a farce one must sit comfortably and in no way feel hampered by the exaltation of art that makes people jam a theater to see a play as if it were a matter of salvation. Constantius desires the comic effect and wants a relation to the theatrical performance that generates the comic.
