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=== Individual psychology === {{main|Individual psychology}} [[Alfred Adler]] borrowed heavily from Nietzsche's work to develop his second Viennese school of psychotherapy called individual psychology. Adler (1912) wrote in his important book ''Über den nervösen Charakter (The Neurotic Constitution)'': {{blockquote|Nietzsche's "Will to power" and "Will to seem" embrace many of our views, which again resemble in some respects the views of [[Féré]] and the older writers, according to whom the sensation of pleasure originates in a feeling of power, that of pain in a feeling of feebleness (Ohnmacht).<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Adler, Alfred|author-link=Alfred Adler|year=1912–1917|title=The Neurotic Constitution|pages=ix|publisher=Moffat, Yard and Company|location=New York|url=https://archive.org/details/neuroticconstitu00adle}}</ref>}} Adler's adaptation of the will to power was and still is in contrast to Sigmund Freud's [[Pleasure principle (psychology)|pleasure principle]] or the "will to pleasure", and to [[Viktor Frankl]]'s [[logotherapy]] or the "will to meaning".<ref>Seidner, Stanley S. (June 10, 2009) [https://docs.google.com/gview?a=v&q=cache:FrKYAo88ckkJ:www.materdei.ie/media/conferences/a-secular-age-parallel-sessions-timetable.pdf+%22Stan+Seidner%22&hl=en&gl=us "A Trojan Horse: Logotherapeutic Transcendence and its Secular Implications for Theology"]. ''Mater Dei Institute''</ref> Adler's intent was to build a movement that would rival, even supplant, others in psychology by arguing for the holistic integrity of psychological well-being with that of [[social equality]]. His interpretation of Nietzsche's will to power was concerned with the individual patient's overcoming of the [[Superiority complex|superiority-]][[Inferiority complex|inferiority]] dynamic.<ref>{{cite book |last1= Ansbacher |first1= Heinz |author-link1= Heinz Ansbacher |last2= Ansbacher |first2= Rowena R. |title= The Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler |year= 1956 |publisher= Harper Perennial (1964) |pages= 132–133 |isbn= 0-06-131154-5}}</ref> In ''Man's Search for Meaning'', Frankl compared his third Viennese school of psychotherapy with Adler's psychoanalytic interpretation of the will to power: {{blockquote|... the striving to find a meaning in one's life is the primary motivational force in man. That is why I speak of a ''will to meaning'' in contrast to the pleasure principle (or, as we could also term it, the ''will to pleasure'') on which Freudian psychoanalysis is centered, as well as in contrast to the ''will to power'' stressed by Adlerian psychology.<ref>{{cite book |last= Frankl |first= Viktor |author-link= Viktor Frankl |title= Man's Search for Meaning |year= 1959 |publisher= Beacon Press |location= Boston, Massachusetts |page= [https://archive.org/details/manssearchforme000fran/page/154 154] |isbn= 0-671-02337-3 |url-access= registration |url= https://archive.org/details/manssearchforme000fran/page/154 }}</ref>}}
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