Nietzsche's Philosophical Psychology

In Nietzsche''s Philosophical Psychology, Mattia Riccardi offers a systematic account of Nietzsche''s thought on the human mind. A central theme is the nature of and relation between the unconscious and conscious mind. Whereas Nietzsche takes consciousness to be a mere "surface"--as he writes in Ecce Homo--that evolved in the course of human socialisation, he sees the bedrock of human psychology a...