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
Undervalue other achievement and overvalue own
Depreciatiob
Means of hurting ppl who are close to them
Self-accusation
Overemphasize being manly; results from cultural and social influences
Masculine protest
Method of determining style of life; shaped by present style of life
Early recollections
Disguised to deceive dreamer and must be interpreted by another person
Dreams
Goal of adlerian therapy
Enhance courage, lessen inferiority complex, enhance social interest
Ancient or archaic images that derive from collective unconscious
Archetypes
Main source of archetypap material
Dreams
Archetype of archetypes; unites other archetypes thru self-realization
Self