Alfred Adler (1870 – 1937)
Austrian medical doctor and psychologist.
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Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
The Adlerians, in the name of “individual psychology,” take the side of society against the individual. ... Adler’s later thought succumbs to the worst of his earlier banalization. It is conventional, practical, and moralistic. “Our science ... is based on common sense.” Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.
Man knows much more than he understands.
To be human means to feel inferior.
The striving for significance, this sense of yearning, always points out to us that all psychological phenomena contain a movement that starts from a feeling of inferiority and reach upward. The theory of Individual Psychology of psychological compensation states that the stronger the feeling of inferiority, the higher the goal for personal power.
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