Nietzsche's Analysis of Ressentiment and Humanistic Psychotheraphy

Abstract

Ressentiment, being different from resentment or hatred, has a central place in Nietzsche's analysis. As an existentially creative force beyond a mere emotional state of being, ressentiment brings about a deepening of the inner life and a spiritualization although these come at a cost. The slavish values such as alturism, compassion, solidarity, which become dominant in Europe even if only as a metaphysical horizon, are not as pure as they might seem because they mainly originate from ressentiment. Ressentiment is not only negative and reactive but is also positive and creative. It does not cease to be a reaction even when it overcomes active forces. The ressentiment of the resentful and ordinary men, the domestic animal, against the aristocratic turns back on the resentful and brings about a fictitious relief. The price paid for this relief is the man of conscience who tortures himself all the time. Nietzsche saw ressentiment at the source of the spirit of the European Christian culture. This article aims to elucidate the distinct place of ressentiment in the application of the genealogical method and demonstrate the influence of Nietzsche's analyses of ressentiment on the existentialist schools of psychoteraphy

Özet

Yalom, hümanist psikoloji ile Kıta Avrupası varoluşçu geleneğinin eş anlamlı olmadığına dikkat çeker. Avrupa varoluşçu geleneği insanın sınırlılığına, varoluşun kendinde trajik doğasına daha çok odaklanırken; diğeri potansiyel gelişimin sonsuzluğu, iyimserlik ve pragmatizm ufkuyla çerçevelenmiştir. Yine de çoğu hümanist psikoloğun varoluşçu bir yönelime sahip olduğunu kabul eder Yalom . Bu durumda Nietzsche'nin çö- zümlemelerinin varoluşçu psikoterapilere etkisinin daha güçlü olmuş olmasını öngörebili- riz