Inferiority and superiority traits serve the Find some examples of: n Compensatory striving n Compensatory anger n Overcompensation n Perfection striving Note that SOME (Adler called this: masculine protest) n Perfection striving: seeking after a goal, or dream.īased on subjective, fictional ideas about life. Its opposite, submission, passive aggression) n Overcompensation to feel competent and in control Some other way n Aggression and anger at one’s problems, hostility (or Ways to deal with our sense of inferiority n Compensatory striving: becoming stronger, better in Presence of our weaknesses and vulnerabilities. Not being good at something, being poor, being weak and small etc.) n Trying to hide our vulnerabilities or deny them is the In the presence of death as a possibility Overcoming Death Means n When we are afraid of death, we also fear the variousįorms of inferiority and vulnerability we experience (ex: disability, illness, Way Freud and Jung looked at dreams? The basic driving force for Adler is n The attempt to overcome death, to live constructively n Question: How is that similar to/different from the n That also is, says Adler, how we are constructingĭreams: dreams aim to create a mood that will prompt us into taking action Memories which support us in our goals and struggles. Thing for which you can find physical evidence) n Do some memoryĬonstructions” give you information about your fears or important themes? We construct helpful memories n Adler would say that we are constructing the kinds of These things happen? Only God would know for sure (unless it is the kind of May be things you remember strongly and clearly that no one else does. They may remember things quite differently than you do. We always construct memories… n If you doubt this, justĬompare some of your childhood recollections with your siblings and otherįamily members. In the memory, he faces and copes successfully with his fear, and n Configuring that memory provides a possible model forĪction. n The fear of death was more prevalent in Adler’s psyche Why does the unconscious create a fiction? n In Adler’s view, the unconscious helps us problem Unconscious to express the manner in which he dealt with that fear. n The construction of this memory was a way for his The desire to become an MD when he grew up (which he did) n The fear of death stayed a predominant theme in Adler’s Was then given treatment and recovered rapidly. Why did Adler construct such a memory? n When he was five, Adler almost died of pneumonia, but ( = not factual, created unconsciously by the psyche ). n Later, when he was 35, he learned that there never hadīeen a cemetery on his way to school, and thus, the whole memory was fictitious Through a cemetery on his way to school as a five year-old, being terrified,Īnd mastering his fear by running through the cemetery back and forth a number Alfred Adler (1870-1937) Individual PsychologyĪ Fictitious Memory n As an adult, Adler had a vivid memory of having to walk
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