Superiority And Social Interest

Alfred Adler’s theory of personality and system of psychotherapy has been articulated since more than the half century. Since then, Adler’s ideas have been gradually infused the modern psychology. (Ellen Berger 1970, 645-648) Adler’s original things reflect the shift of psychoanalysis to ego psychology. Many psychoanalysists hail Alder as a pioneer for the latest developments in the field of psychoanalysis. (Ellen Berger 1970, 638) He observed that our society overvalues men and undervalues women and as a result both men and women are suffering. According to his perception men and women are of equal values. Many anthropologists, physicists and biologists’ work show the relationship of their work with the Adler’s concept that says that all living things and their proclivities are interconnected with each other. According to the Adler’s concept of the final goal, there is a fictional future reference point that is responsible to pull all the movement in the similar direction. This concept is the same as that of strange attractor in the chaos theory where strange attractor is a magnetic end point that is responsible to pull on and to set the limitations for a process. (Nelson 1991) The Core Of Adler’s Philosophy A very humanistic and optimistic view of life is the core of Adler’s philosophy. His psychology is a value-oriented psychology where all the human beings are capable for self-fulfillment, striving for self-improvement, capable of living together and they can contribute for the sake of common welfare. If the people will not cooperate with each other then there will be a risk of destruction of each other. Community Feelings People start feeling deep belonging to the race of humans when their social interes...

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