Nietzsche’s Drives

If Nietzsche's contention that a man is a collection of drives, then he is correct when he writes, "However far a man may go in self-knowledge, nothing however can be more incomplete than his image of the totality of drives which constitute his being."(B2 A 119)

Man is not by any means a fixed and permanent being. He is in a constant state of transition. His drives push and pull him in every direction. He is rarely more than a series of entangled compromised drives. His longings draw him back to god, back to nature , back to his mother, away from his true self away, away from the understanding of the drives which control him.

Man's abundant limitations prevent him from understanding the totality of his drives. Limitations such as language, experience, and understanding are among, but not the only confinements. Man is but a reflection, and because of this, every initial cause