PSY 3303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Pilates, Michael Jackson, Neurosis
6 Nov 2018
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Seen as always present motivating force in behaviour. It is not a sign of weakness or abnormality. Child is aware of his/her parents as having more power. Feelings of inferiority are a function of the environment. Individual growth results from compensation , that is, from our attempts to overcome our real or imagined inferiorities. We are driven by the need to overcome our sense inferiority. And we strive for increasingly higher levels of development. Alfred even saw the body as the environment (i. e. missing a hand, leg) Joseph pilates (german physical trainer, invented pilates method) suffered from rickets in childhood, rickets is a skeletal disorder caused by a lack of calcium. Inferiority complex is a condition that develops when a person is unable to compensate for normal inferiority. Such individuals have a poor opinion of themselves. They feel helpless and unable to cope with the demands of life. Inferiority complex can arise from three sources of childhood.
