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POWER GAME

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Carl Jung

People have created a great number of games. A power game even didn’t have to be invented for it lies in the nature of every living being. It has penetrated in almost every sphere of our day-to-day life: politics, sport, family relations, different kinds of art, etc.
According to the psychologist Alfred Adler, a domineering type of people is characterized by self-assurance and forcefulness with an insignificant social interest, if there is any. Being active, they do not act in favour of society, hence, do not care about its prosperity and well-being. Such type of people is oriented on superiority over the outside world. The thing they focus on is the top of a career ladder.
However, it doesn’t mean that everyone takes part in this game. Human beings continue developing, and instincts go in the second place giving in to the desire to ...

Posted by: Sean Wilson

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