Overperson

An overperson is original and therefore alone. Gods do not consort with each other, let alone comfort the rest of us.

Nietzche does in fact emphasize again and again that the overperson overcomes him or herself, not others.

And with the birth of the overperson at the great noontide of the future, humanity is to achieve an atheistic freedom expressed in the wish: “Dead are all the Gods: now do we desire the Superman to live.

The nation is an overperson imposing its wishes upon individual members, performing acts and receiving allegiance from its citizens.

In this process the individual accepts the belief in the entity of the nation as an overperson and the corresponding personification of the out-group nation as a causal agent ( Allport, 1933 ) .

Short of space, he built a little wine cellar in a linen closet.26 In December 1951 he wrote that the “overperson” was complaining about commotions after 11:00 at night, a time when “normal” people should be asleep.