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p.107 Nietzsche claimed that the real, or at least, the most frequent �struggle
of life� is not to conserve one’s life, but rather to improve oneself. Instead of adapting, Nietzsche believed
that the organism attempts to assimilate or to force its environment and others to adapt to it... Adaptation to an
external environment is not, however, totally neglected, but rather is viewed as a secondary activity [2, 3, 15, 16, 17].
The fundamental drive in life, according to Nietzsche, is to expand and increase one’s power, what he metaphorically
typifies as the �struggle for power� [2, 3, 15] (Table 1).
p.107 According to the interpretation, which in line with Nietzsche,
M.Foucault [18, 22] and G.Deleuze [15, 23] make of power relations, a relation of
power coincides with those relations between forces: forces (social, psychological, biological, etc.) acting
upon other forces as opposed to forces acting upon objects, i.e. forces of violence and repression.
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