Nietzsche’s Mask Psychology: Survival Armor of the Human Psyche
The Mask as Survival Armor: Nietzsche’s Ontology of Psychological Self-Preservation 1. Ontological Foundations of the Mask Nietzsche’s assertion that “Man is the animal whose pains have been longest” (as referenced in your core premise) establishes human suffering as both temporally extended and existentially constitutive. Within this framework, the mask transcends mere social deception to become…