Will to Power, Command, Obey

In #19 of Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche criticizes superficial interpretations of 'Will', but his own analysis is itself not incisive enough.  For, his assertion, that "in every will there is a ruling thought--let us not imagine it is possible to sever this thought from 'willing'", is refuted by another of his own theses.  That thesis--that a "living things seeks above all to discharge its strength" (BGE #13)--implies a fundamental severance between that impulse and the thought that provides the impulse with an outlet.  Accordingly, the immediate involvement of Thought in the exercise of Will is as an enabler, with respect to which Compulsion enters into that exercise only on the occasion of an intrusion into the process of an extrinsic factor of resistance.  Furthermore, it is only in Compulsion that Command and Obey are the fundamental relata.  Thus, Nietzsche's attribution of an essential Command-Obey structure to the Will to Power is less well-grounded by his analysis in #19 than he takes it to be.