Chapter 4 - Adler Flashcards
Aggressive drive
The compulsion to destroy, conquer, and kill
Compensation
A motivation to overcome inferiority, to strive for higher levels of development
Creative power of the self
The ability to create an appropriate style of life
Early recollections
A personality assessment technique in which our earliest memories, whether of real events or fantasies, are assumed to reveal the primary interest of our life
Fictional finalism
The idea that there is an imagined or potential goal that guides our behavior
Individual psychology
Adler’s theory of personality
Individuation
A condition of psychological health resulting from the integration of all conscious and unconscious facets of the personality
Inferiority complex
A condition that develops when a person is unable to compensate for normal inferiority feelings
Inferiority feelings
The normal condition of all people; the source of all human striving
Social interest
Our innate potential to cooperate with other people to achieve personal and societal goals
Striving for superiority
The urge toward perfection or completion that motivates each of us
Style of life
A unique character structure or pattern of personal behaviors and characteristics by which each of use strives for perfection. Basic styles of life include the dominant, getting, avoiding, and socially useful types
Superiority complex
A condition that develops when a personal overcompensates for a normal inferiority feelings
Organic inferiority
Physical aspect of self that is inferior to what is considered normal
Self concept
Who i am
