Nietzsche and psychology as a study of the will to power

Abstract

Nietzsche refers to himself as a psychologist on several occasions. That is why
he showed interest in the construction of a knowledge that dared to descend to the
depths. This knowledge is psychology itself, and it is called to be the queen of the sciences, because it must lead again to the fundamental problems. However, for this to be possible, psychology must detach it self from the moral prejudices on which it has been sustained, and for this reason Nietzsche conceived this science as morphology and theory of the evolution of the will to power. But what does this mean? What is it to think of a psychology that is built from the complex notion of the will of power? These are the questions that we will try to clarify here, so that we see in the Nietzschean proposal of psychology a knowledge that is most necessary and pertinentto date.