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UNOWNED AREA AS A SOURCE OF MENTAL LIFE:NIETZSCHE, SCHELER, WITTGENSTEIN, GOFFMANSummaryTraditionally mental life of the person goes into “seclusion” called his/her interior.It is believed that because of its secret nature of the it and because it is not immediatelygiven to other subject who may – at best – guess of what “goes in”. Freeaccess one has got only to his/her own experiences (feelings, emotions, thoughtsetc.). In the twentieth century (and a bit earlier) this traditional view is criticizedand changed. As a fruit of this criticism emerged the opposite trend: the knowledgeof both my and his/her inner experience is explain by introducing an element thatallows this knowledge and is placed outside any of them. I call it the impersonalsphere of nobody – supra-individual matrix of the knowledge of my and his/hermental life. In this article I try to indicate the origin of the idea of this sphere givingits main characteristics. A description is based on the views of known philosophers:Nietzsche, Scheler and Wittgenstein and one sociologist – Goffman.