Will-to-power
Adler had been influenced by the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche who glorified the will-to-power.
For Adler, an over-development of the will-to-power can become a deep seated neurosis.
Only a health balance between the forces of cooperation and the individual will-to-power can make for a harmonious individual and a harmonious society.
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Alfred Adler was an Austrian physician and psychiatrist who is best-known for forming the school of thought known as individual psychology. He is also remembered for his concepts of the inferiority feeling and inferiority complex, which he believed played a major part in the formation of personality.
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