The nihilistic crisis and the will to live

The loss of the meaning of existence, the feeling that life is not worth living, the absence of goals worth striving for, the death of God, can all be summed up in one word: nihilism. The particular relationship that this experience acquires with the disposition to suicide has been studied from different points of view: philosophical, psychiatric, sociological, etc. In Nietzsche's posthumous manuscripts we find various annotations that deal with the problem of nihilism fundamentally from two different perspectives: as a historical event and as a personal event, as a crisis "in media vita" of Nietzsche himself. In them one can trace an attempt to overcome nihilism, revisiting the meaning of suicide as an unfeasible solution, and the meaning of reproductive sexuality as a key to the resolution of the nihilistic crisis.