He who has hitherto only negated himself dreads the affirmation of his own Will by another.
For, dimly perceiving through the principium individuationis, he realizes that this affirmation of himself is so intense. Even though this affirmation is not made by himself, it nonetheless increases the absolute value of the affirmation of the Will; via the principium individuationis, this is also a negation of the other, and simultaneously his own negation of the other.
This is a negation of the other by oneself—one that he dared not make before, but which has now been automatically made by the other party—a negation of another.
Yozo’s sensitivity regards this as a crime akin to murder.
Thus, Yozo kneels behind the door and prays, that the lover killed by him might be released from the suffering of his own imagining. To avoid committing a greater crime—negation—he flees.
Yozo dimly sees through the principium individuationis, and is thus called “a god-like child.”
Even though all of them did not realize this.
Deduction written in 2020.9