ABSTRACT
The formative period in the rise of anarcho-psychology, which had been initiated in 1844 with the publication of Der Einzige, came to a close in 1889 with Nietzsche’s disintegration into madness. Our task has been merely to plot the genesis of the new philosophical perspective, but on the assumption that the past, because it is viewed under a searchlight directed from the present, provides immediate and relevant associations. We conclude by sketching what anarcho-psychology had achieved by 1889, mentioning some twentiethcentury social theories which are in its debt, and assessing what has been the nature of critique from this perspective.
