There are thousands and degrees and variations, but it is always clearly the attitude of a person who finds his superiority in solving the complications of others. In the investigation of a neurotic style of life we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family. Defiant individuals will always persecute others, yet will always consider themselves persecuted. Victim-thinking and what Nietzsche called ressentiment go together and feed each other.
Every chronic martyr displays all the signs of being a professional hater.
I am actually completely amoral. We will understand that with such an attitude one can well afford to be amoral without incurring any danger. To injure another person through atonement is one of the most subtle devices of the neurotic, as when, for example, he indulges in self-accusations. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient's own arrangement, which only he can change. The self-bound individual always forgets that his self would be safeguarded better and automatically the more he prepares himself for the welfare of mankind, and that in this respect no limits are set for him.