Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes on Mind

Nietzsche's psychology — what he called the queen of the sciences — analyzes the apparent unity of the conscious self as the surface effect of a manifold of competing drives whose conflicts and provisional truces produce what we call thoughts, evaluations, and acts of will. The doctrine that there is no doer behind the deed, that the I is a grammatical fiction projected backward onto the deed by a metaphysical superstition embedded in language, is developed across Beyond Good and Evil, On the Genealogy of Morality, and the late notebooks. The implication that introspection misreports its own subject anticipated, by half a century, the psychoanalytic and naturalistic revolutions in the philosophy of mind.