Alfred Adler, one of the founders of psychoanalysis, was the first to wonder why stutterers so often aspire to the stage, and cripples are so eager to participate in sports. These reflections led him to the discovery of a mechanism of hypercompensation in the structure of the personality, within which not the presence of abilities, but their deficiency pushes a person to great achievements. Why? What is the real reason for these actions? The answer to this question Alfred Adler found in the pages of the diary F. Nietzsche, the great patient of the psychiatric clinic, who spent most of his life in the twilight of consciousness, and only the will to power was able to awaken in him the greatness of genius. Sigmund Freud believed that the leading force for man is the desire for pleasure. Victor Frankl made the search for meaning fundamental to man, and only Alfred Adler saw the will to power and realized that it was this, dark force that drove man to great achievements. Stories of megalomania, its triumph and fall, and dedicated to this book