The Fictional Final Goal

According to the Adlerian perspective the fictional final goal is a future-oriented strive toward an ideal goal of significance, superiority, success or completion. Adler himself called it an attempt at a planned final compensation and a secret life plan. Each person has the power to create a personalized fictional goal, one constructed out of raw materials provided by heredity and the environment. The final goal is the product of the creative power, that is a person’s ability to have the freedom to shape their behavior and create their own personality. A person’s final goal reduces the pain of inferiority feelings and points that person in the direction of either superiority or success. When reading about the character Nietzsche he is very

private when it comes to sharing information about his personal life with his physician Dr.Breuer. When Nietzsche first met Breuer, their conversation starts off with his previous treatments and quickly turns to philosophy and Nietzsche’s career. Nietzsche has a soft voice that surprises Breuer at first because the books that he received from Lou Salome sounded anything but soft when he read them. Breuer and Nietzsche meet a second time to talk about his examination. Nietzsche speaks freely about all his ailments with the doctor but does not tell him a word about the despair that he is experiencing. Nietzsche is a free spirit whose home is a steamer trunk and hotels. He sticks to a diet that consist of bland food, abstains from alcoholic beverages and coffee. Nietzsche does not have many close friends and he doesn’t have much family. The last and closest family member that he has is his sister. Nietzsche’s final goal is striving for success. In the book, he maintains a sense of self but can see daily problems from the view of society rather than a personal point of view. In the very end of the story he also realizes that he prefers to be alone instead of accepting Breuer’s invitation to stay with him and his family.