ABSTRACT
Psychology as the discipline of interiority is essentially related to the question of truth. This relation, as well as the specific notion of truth proper to psychology, is exposed in the last chapter of The Soul’s Logical Life, through an interpretation of the myth of Actaion, the hunter, and his meeting with the goddess Artemis, who allegorically means the truth that implicitly governs Actaion’s hunt. Psychology is thus seen as the great hunt for truth. Now, Nietzsche uses the same metaphor-image of the great hunt (and of truth as a woman) to present his notion of psychology. However, in The Soul’s Logical Life Nietzsche is seen as one of the destroyers of the notion of truth, and thus his stance should be in full opposition to the one that is embodied in psychology as the discipline of interiority. In this essay, I explore both stances in order to highlight their opposition, on the one hand, and to point to a problem that arises in psychology’s claim for being “the discipline of truth.”
