![]() ![]() ![]() Ressentiment as a concept gained popularity with Friedrich Nietzsche's writings. The ego creates an enemy in order to insulate itself from culpability. This value system is then used as a means of justifying one's own weaknesses by identifying the source of envy as objectively inferior, serving as a defense mechanism that prevents the resentful individual from addressing and overcoming their insecurities and flaws. The sense of weakness or inferiority complex and perhaps even jealousy in the face of the "cause" generates a rejecting/justifying value system, or morality, which attacks or denies the perceived source of one's frustration. According to their use, ressentiment is a sense of hostility directed toward an object that one identifies as the cause of one's frustration, that is, an assignment of blame for one's frustration. The concept was of particular interest to some 19th century thinkers, most notably Friedrich Nietzsche. t i ˈ m ɒ̃/ French pronunciation: ( listen)) is one of the forms of resentment or hostility. In philosophy, ressentiment ( / r ə ˌ s ɒ̃. ![]()
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