ABSTRACT
Few students reflecting on the basis of human nature have not been impressed with the human "will to power" as Nietzche called it. Similarity Price (personal communication) has suggested that we need a term for "up hierarchy motivation", which reflects motivational processes to increase RHP. Alfred Adler coined the terms inferiority and superiority complexes (Ellenberger 1970). Leary (1957) regarded dominance-submission as a central dimension of personality. More recently, McClelland (1985) has written extensively on the power motive as one of the primary human motives. In political philosophy, the issue of the relation between exploiting (master) and exploited (slave) has been a central issue for many centuries and was articulated so fully by Marx. Foucault (1984) has also analysed in depth, the issue of power and authority as social phenomena. Although Foucault has little interest in the issue of "human nature", prefering a historical analysis of cultural structures, the tendency for social animals to exert power to acquire dominance and control over others is ubiquitous.
