Resumen

FLORES, Enrique. Psycopathia lascasiana: the will to power (2). Lit. mex [online]. 2023, vol.34, n.1, pp.207-223.  Epub 13-Feb-2023. ISSN 2448-8216.  https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.litmex.2022.34.1.7900s42x8.

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 second of two notes on the subject), analyzing an essay by the great Hispanist Américo Castro ―“Fray Bartolo mé 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”.

Palabras llave : Américo Castro; fray Bartolomé de las Casas; the will to power; Nietszche; delusion.