chapter 4: Alfred Alder Flashcards
Feelings of inferiority
compensation ( major house of motivation)
- developed in infancy
- subjective inferiority
- inferiority complex
Person + environment
critical parts of a person’s personality
background
meaning of life ( ego, id, superego)
uniqueness of individual ( harmony and cooperation)
organ inferiority
valuable to disease
- less developed ( caused by the environment )
- the body is an integrated unit
overcompensation
the body works to make up for that missing organ ( dependent on the environment)
subjective inferiority
could be motivation ( dependent on the environment)
inferiority complex
barrier of growth
masculine protest
culture condition ( power is masculine, not female)- both want to be masculine
- motivational
- all humans are weak wanting to become strong
striving for superiority
innate fundamental fact of life
- not simple masculinity is sought
- perfection
superiority complex
becoming better by hurting others
life style
healthy ( constructive) or mistaken (destructive)
affected by worldview
equation
feelings of inferiority and world view over life goals and final over lifestyle
- if + then +
- if - then -
subjective perceptions
fictionalism or fictional finalism
- personality molded by fiction
healthy vs. neurotic
- personal freedom
fictional guides style of life
social interest
the change focuses on motivation
- starts with the mother
- life problems
(society takes - cooperation )
(occupational tasks - advance society )
(love and marriage - continuance)
personality types
ruling dominant
getting leaning
avoiding
- all negative
socially useful
