<i>Ressentiment</i>

Nietzsche famously discusses a psychological condition he calls ressentiment, involving toxic, vengeful anger. I offer free-standing theory in philosophical psychology of the familiar state aptly described with this term. In process developing my account, chart terrain around ressentiment and closely related sometimes overlapping states (ordinary moral resentment, envy, vengefulness, anger, like). On account develop, perception being slighted, insulted, or demeaned figures centrally cases ressentiment. Moreover, is not merely an ethically neutral psychic formation but is, suggest, manifestation vice.