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Overcoming the Ressentiment Complex (Session III)

Ressentiment is a valuable weapon in the arsenal of Nietzsche’s political ideas. In this lecture I argue that ressentiment, as Nietzsche deploys it, is meant to designate, name, and to tame (put in its proper place) a lower form of suffering in social life. Thus, when ressentiment is deployed in political and social discourse it plays a specific function in the class struggle: it rigidifies and intensifies a liberal polemical form of politics that designates boundaries of insider/outsider. When one deems the other to be of ressentiment they have shut down the possibility of solidarity across groups and classes and they have ontologized the other as caught up with a resentment which they cannot transcend. I argue that Nietzsche's theory of ressentiment is ultimately a repressed conception of resentment in which a proper airing of resentments, specifically resentments caused from social dynamics, are made ineligible to be addressed. This is the heart of the problem with the concept of ressentiment and why only a parasitic reading of Nietzschean ressentiment can discover strategies that are more egalitarian, universal and collective for overcoming the resentments that afflict us. Readings: Wendy Brown, “No Future for White Men: Nihilism, Fatalism, and Ressentiment” Max Scheler, Ressentiment (excerpts) Daniel Tutt, How to Read Like a Parasite (chapter 7) The final session in this series will be released in January 2026: Nietzsche and Marx on Bonapartism (Session IV) -- If you benefit from my work please consider a donation: paypal.me/danieltutt1 You can also become a Patron to gain early access to all of my interviews and videos: www.patreon.com/emancipations