In defense of Adler
“to Live –it means to develop”. "Man is but a drop of water, but a drop with a large vanity". Alfred Adler
will Share an interesting observation. Posted on page in the VC group quotes Freud and following quotes Adler. Have a quotes Freud was 5 times more views. Really thought Adler less interesting for people? Maybe they are less paradoxical and shocking.
Name, Freud on the ear of the layman, it is associated in humans with taboo subjects of sexuality, and Electra complexes, Oedipus, anal, oral and phallic stages in the development of the child…
But not sex. one man alive
the Human personality is too multi-faceted to be able to explain one, even the most wonderful theory.
Adler was a contemporary of Freud, and in the same way as the founder of psychoanalysis, considered childhood as an important stage in human development. Being the youngest child in a large poor family, Adler's childhood was often sick and almost died. Part of the reason he decided to become a doctor.
In childhood every child feels inferior because is largely dependent on adults. Remember your childhood: “when I grow, then… (recognize, understand, get, achieve, etc.)”. Adler called it the "inferiority complex". Man seeks to overcome his childhood helplessness, inadequacy, and develops as overcompensation "striving for excellence”. "In children's fantasies almost always there are situations in which a child over someone dominates". A. Adler.
the Pursuit of excellence for Adler is a deeply personal process, it is a state of self-actualization. "the Superiority is actually life itself," he said. Man, trying to excellence, learning to plan their actions and determine their fate.
Adler believed that people should strive to be effective in life, it will help him to develop, but all human life –it is a continuous process of development.
If Freud took sexuality major role in personality development, Adler did focus on the social component in the development of personality.
Faced in real life with lots of events, experiences, people draw conclusions about them based on personal experience, as well as information or facts, obtained from various, sometimes unknown sources. This knowledge formed in the system chain. People create in your imagination a picture of the world and accept it as the truth. Adler in the concept of Individual theories of personality wrote: "In life, it is not, that is absolutely true, and the fact that we think so" or "do you find the fact that planned to find", implying that it is only our subjective view of the world .
the German philosopher Hans Vaihinger call it fictions (fictions) or social fiction ( fictionalism). Adler developed the theory of Vaihinger and proposed the concept of "fictional goal" (fictional goals).
phony target is not so bad, they give meaning to the action their achievement, and hence of life itself. Striving to achieve excellence, people set goals, formed their creative force, which makes these goals individually unique. And it does not matter your goal is true or false, main thing, it gives meaning to the whole "human life history".
In conclusion, Adler quotes about sexuality:
the Result of exaggerating the value of sexuality is a violation of harmony of all human life, and in the end depriving it of any meaning.
Sexual perversion are just another way of avoiding women.
the Question of sexuality is surrounded by an extraordinary number of prejudices.
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