GGRESSIVENESS AND WILL OF POWER. HYPOTHESIS AND COMPARISONS TO ANTONIO DAMASIO’S THEORYABOUT EMOTIONS AND FEELINGS

Abstract

The single notions of aggressiveness and will of power suggested by Adler in his first Individual Psychology, change during the development of his thought. I analyze the historical interpretations of these terms comparing them to the position of Antonio Damasio the neuroscientist who studies connections among mind, body and brain in the creation of feelings. I show how the aggressive nature evolves in will of power, a mental, often unconscious reply to physical and social inferiorities. In the normal development the will of power, with the community feeling, can create the wish to superiority which is held, at a superior and ideal level, in the perfect social feeling