From the Archives: Part 92 of The Self and its Sources

Virginia Woolf portrays a more advanced stage of the ‘disease’ that Dostoyevsky depicts in the character of the “underground man”. Nietzsche incorrectly saw Christianity as the source of the modern world’s resentments – when in fact the resentments are the source of mimetic entanglements. Christianity censured the taking of revenge. It is this prohibition that Nietzsche rejects. To the extent that people refuse the Christian call to conversion and repentance that can change the human heart and yet still renounce revenge, there will be resentments.

From the Archives: Part 91 of The Self and its Sources

Nietzsche’s “madman” & Dostoyevsky’s “underground man” – are reflected in the metaphorical prelude to the last section of the novel.