Teun van Dijk’s later theory, titled mental models of context, provides a framework for explaining the editing of information within the participants’ cognition. This theory, by integrating personal and social knowledge domains, explicates the author as one of the participants in the discourse. A qualitative analysis of the content of Unless Touched by Fire is limited to highlighting its philosophical and literary aspects, while a critical analysis can reveal the novel’s connection to the real world and power relations. Furthermore, examining the author’s philosophical perspective on humanity and reason reveals their literary style and techniques for employing philosophical and social knowledge. Thus, considering philosophical knowledge as one of the mental components of discourse construction, the present study aims to investigate the application of Nietzsche’s Übermensch theory through the lens of Van Dijk’s socio-cognitive approach. In this study, the detailed and overall structure of the discourse is directly addressed, while the perceptual structure, acting as an interface between these two aforementioned structures, is implicitly considered. The novelist, employing linguistic strategies within the detailed discourse structure, has created a context to marginalize the negative aspects of the in-group (Nadīm) and emphasize the negative aspects of the out-group (Eskandar Bēk). Subsequently, within the overall discourse structure and in the dialectic between the Iraqi mind and society, the issue of power is addressed. The author’s supported ideology is presented in the opening sentence of the novel. The novel Unless Touched by Fire ostensibly narrates the story of a young man named Nadīm, whose life events have driven him to madness. However, a critical examination reveals that this novel is a manifestation of the author’s subjective context, critiquing the prevailing political and social atmosphere. It proposes a re-evaluation of human values, including reason, as a way to overcome the crisis confronting Iraqi society.