Alfred Adler
Alfred Adler
Alfred W. Adlerwas an Austrian medical doctor, psychotherapist, and founder of the school of individual psychology. His emphasis on the importance of feelings of inferiority—the inferiority complex—is recognized as an isolating element which plays a key role in personality development. Alfred Adler considered human beings as an individual whole, therefore he called his psychology "Individual Psychology"...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth7 February 1880
CountryAustria
The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties of early life and out of the striving for a goal.
Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles.
There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.
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.
To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.
My difficulties belong to me!
God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.
We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.
In this case, the neurotic resembles a human being who looks up to God, commends himself to His ways, and then religiously awaits how the Lord will guide him; he is nailed to the cross of his fiction.
Every neurotic is partly in the right.
It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
What person, confined in a small room with nothing but a tea-cosy, will not eventually put the tea-cosy on their head?