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Beyond Good and Evil · Chapter
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A brief aphorism exploring the relationship between wounded pride and heightened vanity, suggesting a defensive psychological mechanism.
What happens
A brief aphorism exploring the relationship between wounded pride and heightened vanity, suggesting a defensive psychological mechanism.
Themes in this chapter
Psychology as the Fundamental Science
Analyzes the subtle, reactive dynamics between pride and vanity as a core psychological insight.
Characters to notice
- The Narrator
Delivers the psychological observation on vanity and pride.
Key passages
“Our vanity is most difficult to wound just when our pride has been wounded.”
When our pride is injured, our vanity becomes most defensive and resistant to further injury.
Highlights a psychological reflex where one form of self-regard (vanity) hardens in protection of another (pride).