PSY 505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Superiority Complex, Inferiority Complex, Psychopathology
31 Mar 2016
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We are ultimately responsible for determining our own life. Human beings function in a purposeful way. The unconscious goal is to master your environment. Drives and past events are subordinate to individual purpose and. Creative abilities to identify and achieve own goals. Adler"s view of personality is holistic a proper understanding of personality can never be achieved by studying the components separately. The striving to move from a position experienced as inferior to one of superiority, perfection, or totality. Two important general forms of the striving for superiority: the striving for power, the striving for social interest. Organ inferiorities: physiological or constitutional defects or limitations (real or perceived) triggering strong feelings of inferiority. Feelings of inferiority: normal and inevitable feelings of weakness which result from helplessness during childhood. Compensatory reactions for inferiority: compensation, sensitivity. Inability to compensate: leads to the development of an inferiority complex, overcompensation, leads to the development of a superiority complex.
