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The will to power is a prominent concept in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and in the psychotherapy of Alfred Adler. The term may also refer to:
- The Will to Power (manuscript), a posthumous publication of Nietzsche's notebooks
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Will to Power (band), a dance music band from Miami whose name is taken from Nietzsche's concept
- Will to Power (album), an album by the band
- Will to Power (film), a 2008 film
- Will to Power (comics) a comic book mini-series from Dark Horse
- Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht, a PlayStation 2 game
The will to power is a prominent concept in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. The will to power describes what Nietzsche may have believed to be the main driving force in humans – achievement, ambition, and the striving to reach the highest possible position in life. These are all manifestations of the will to power; however, the concept was never systematically defined in Nietzsche's work, leaving its interpretation open to debate.
Alfred Adler incorporated the will to power into his individual psychology. This can be contrasted to the other Viennese schools of psychotherapy: Sigmund Freud's pleasure principle (will to pleasure) and Viktor Frankl's logotherapy (will to meaning). Each of these schools advocates and teaches a very different essential driving force in human beings.
Will to Power is the name of an American dance-pop and freestyle music group that originated in south Florida in the mid-1980s. The group recorded a number of hit singles on the Billboard dance and pop charts in the late 1980s and early 1990s, most notably " Baby, I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley", a medley of 1970s hits by Peter Frampton and Lynyrd Skynyrd that reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart in December 1988. The group has also two number one singles on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play, " Say It's Gonna Rain" and " Fading Away", and continues to create music into the 21st century.
Will To Power was a twelve-issue limited series event published by Dark Horse Comics under their Comics Greatest World imprint. It was published in four three-issue arcs, with each arc focusing on one of CGW's four environs, Arcadia, Steel Harbor, Golden City, and the area surrounding the Vortex.
The story followed the descent of Titan from hero to villain. Other major characters included the X-killer (better known simply as X), Scream, Counterstrike, Mace Blitzkrieg, Wolf Pack, Grace and Catalyst, King Tiger, Lt. Anderson, and The Man from the Vortex.
This storyline was CGW's swansong. The imprint was changed to Dark Horse Heroes shortly after its completion.
Will to Power is the name of the debut studio album by the American dance-pop band Will to Power. It was released in March 1988 by Epic Records. The album peaked at No. 68 on the Billboard 200 albums chart.
Will to Power contains the band's No. 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, " Baby, I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley", the most successful single released by them today, coming to stay for a week in the first position of the Billboard Hot 100., as well as two songs that reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart, (" Say It's Gonna Rain" that was the first single of them coming in the first position on the dance chart and " Fading Away" that reached first on the dance chart and achieved moderate success on the Billboard Hot 100.). " Dreamin'" managed to enter the Billboard Hot 100 although it has achieved more success in the dance charts. According to Fred Bronson's 5th edition of The Billboard Book of #1 Hits, released in 2003, "Will to Power was a trio when the medley hit number one, consisting of (Bob) Rosenberg, (Suzi) Carr and a DJ known as Dr. J."
Will to Power is a 2008 American thriller film, starring David Rountree, Chris Moir, Rosie Garcia, Jonathan Breck, Kiko Ellsworth, David Banks, Kathy Lamkin and Kenn Woodard as Mr. Conner. The movie was written and directed by David Rountree.
Usage examples of "will to power".
His psychology, ruled by an insatiable will to power, is of an Adlerian type.
Then you come to the Adlerian philosophy of the will to power, that all of life is centered on obstructions and overcoming the obstructions.
It is the will to power which leads us love is its very humble servant.
The beginning of the most materialistic age in the history of the world, when wars would be fought without patriotism, when men would forget God and only pay attention to moral standards, when the will to power would replace the will to serve and beauty would be well-nigh forgotten in the terrible headlong rush of mankind toward the acquiring of possessions, was telling its story to Jesse the man of God as it was to the men about him.
Andre DeCamp had no way of knowing that brainwashing experiments were being conducted in the underground chambers of the courthouse, far less that Billy had anything to do with it, but he knew that Shingle was a black magician, intent on subjugating the human race to his own will to power.