What the fuck was his problem?

>>9410625
He tells you directly in part 1

Probably autism

>>9410625
He didn´t respect himself.

>>9410625
I love his toothache analogy.

>>9410625
He was prideful and arrogant, he thought his shit didn't stink until he had nothing but his wretched self.

>>9410625
His prostate or something?

crippling gambling addiction

>>9411376
>he thought his shit didn't stink until he had nothing but his wretched self

he always knew his shit stank, that's why he was a "jerk" to chads

>>9410625
Just finished this today. He was too conscious, he is the literally equivalent of the tfw too smart meme. He also had serious flaws namely pride and vanity, however he was hyper aware of both and this awareness crippled him socially. Basically an autist who knew he was an autist and had his autism magnified due to it, sprinkled with some overall shitty character traits.

His liver was diseased

>>9412688
>too conscious
correct
>the literally equivalent of the tfw too smart meme
not at all
>had serious flaws namely pride and vanity
in a way, but those aren't his defining characteristics.

This anon >>9410634 gets it. Dostoevky didn't really want to create a character study but more like a reply to the prevailing theories about the human condition from the Enlightenment. He says that human beings aren't really reasonable and even if we would all realize that it's in our best interest to embrace reason we still wouldn't do it. There would still be people who would ignore everything and do what they themselves feel it's right. Or maybe not even that, they would do what they know it's harmful in order to affirm their freedom and humanity.

The underground man wants, above all, to be a human, with all the proper consciousness and vanity and anxiety it entails. He is smart and would become something if he wanted to, but he somehow thinks that there is no point in that.

"Indeed, if there really is some day
discovered a formula for all our desires and caprices—that is, an explanation of what they
depend upon, by what laws they arise, how they develop, what they are aiming at in
one case and in another and so on, that is a real mathematical formula—then, most likely, man will at once cease to feel desire, indeed, he will be certain to. For who would want to choose by rule? Besides, he will at once be transformed from a human being into an organ-stop or something of the sort; for what is a man without desires,without free will and without choice, if not a stop in an organ?"

>>9412875
Captain Snegiryov does it better.