New Books in Psychology Resentment: The Complexity of an Emotion and its Effect on Politics
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Oct 10, 2023 The podcast discusses the complexity of resentment, its relationship with identity politics and forgiveness in divided societies. Topics include Nietzsche's views on resentment, generational conflict, and the productive side of resentment for social change.
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Resentment Is A Thoughtful Moral Emotion
- Resentment mixes feeling and reflective thought and often involves dwelling on moral injury.
- Rob Schneider argues it returns again and again and grows from violated expectations about fair treatment.
Moral Injury, Not Just Hurt
- Resentment includes a sense of moral outrage when expected protocols or apologies are denied.
- Schneider compares it to someone jumping a cue: it signals violated norms and accumulated grievance.
Nietzsche's Shadow Over Resentment
- Nietzsche framed resentment as a negative 'slave morality' that inverts noble values into virtues like meekness.
- Schneider warns Nietzsche's powerful myth biases modern views of resentment as purely bad.