““As an affective matrix devised as a “psychological explanation” for revolutionary or political impulses, which reduces social antagonisms to deficiencies of individual character or “private dissatisfactions,” Jameson notes, “the theory of ressentiment, wherever it appears, will always itself be the expression and the production of ressentiment.”41 Even if envy is not exactly the same feeling, then, as this moralizing pathos (though ressentiment is a matrix of a number of affects that can include envy), it is an antagonistic response to a perceived inequality easily discredited for similar reasons—especially, I argue, when the envious subject is a woman.””
