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 simultaneously draws after itself another even more initial cause, and so on to infinity. That is the nature of every sort of awareness and reflection.
"Around every being there is described a similar concentric circle, which has a mid-point and is peculiar to him. Our ears enclose us within a comparable circle, and so does our sense of touch. Now, it is by these horizons, within which each of us encloses his senses as if behind prison walls, that we measure the world, we say that this is near and that far, this big and that small, this is hard and that soft: this measuring we call sensation ? and it is all of it an error!"(B2 A 117)
Man is blind to that which is outside his sight, deaf to the sounds he is incapable of hearing, and doomed to interpret himself and th ...