Adler and Jung Flashcards
The sole dynamic force behind people’s behavior
Striving for success and superiority
- Unifies personality and makes all behavior meaningful
- product of creative power
Final goal
Feel inferior and attempt to overcome these feelings through natural tendency to move toward completion
Striving force as compensation
People’s expectations of the future
Fictions
People are motivated not by what is true but by their subjective perceptions of what is true
Fictional final goal/fictionalism
Disturbance of one part of the body cannot be viewed in isolation, it affects the entire person
Organ dialect
Value of all human activity; feeling of oneness with humanity; originates from mother-child relationship
Social interest
Flavor of a person’s life; product of interaction of heredity, environment, and person’s creative power
Style of life
A dynamic concept implying movement and this movement is the most salient characteristic of life; ability to freely chooae
Creative power
The most important factor in maladjustment
Lack of social interest
Characteristics of maladjustment
- setting goals too high
- have their own private world
- has a dogmatic style of life
Accompanied by exaggerated feelings of inferiority; overcompensate inadequacy
Exaggerated physical deficiencies
Heart of most neuroses
Pampered style of life
Suspicious; unable to cooperate for the common welfare
Neglected style of life
Protect exaggerated self-esteem against public disgrace; largely conscious
Safeguarding tendencies