Psycopathia lascasiana: la voluntad de poder (1)

Abstract

Within the framework of a broader investigation —“Psycopathia lascasiana”—, the first part which studies Menéndez Pidal’s criticism of Las Casas and which is taken further here (the first of two notes on the subject), analyzing an essay by the great Hispanist Américo Castro —“Fray Bartolo­mé de las Casas or Casaus”—in light of the Nietzschean notion of the will to power that runs through him underground and of some psychoanalytic drifts associated with “paranoid delusion”.