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Alfred Adler - an early feminist
After 1897, he joined the socialist circles and became convinced that society helped to create the personality of the individual.
Therefore, for a health personality, there needs to be a healthy society, free from domination.
Adler also saw the need for a society based on equality between men and women, so that the personality of both men and women could develop fully.
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When violence is to be committed, it is frequently done by “appealing to justice, custom, freedom, the welfare of the oppressed and in the name of culture.”
ALFRED ADLER
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Developing social feeling
Power-seekers transform social feeling “from an end into a means, and it is pressed into the service of nationalism and imperialism.”
The only way to counter this neurotic sense of power-seeking is to develop preventive methods by developing social feeling and cooperation.
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Will-to-power
Adler had been influenced by the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche who glorified the will-to-power.
For Adler, an over-development of the will-to-power can become a deep seated neurosis.
Only a health balance between the forces of cooperation and the individual will-t...
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The dominance of the will-to-power over cooperation
At the end of the World War (1914-1918) he felt that the will-to-power dominated the sense of social-feeling and cooperation.
Power-hungry leaders and groups debased mass social feeling by using it as a thirst for dominance.
The social feeling of soldiers during the...
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The irony of developing social feeling
By 1934, Adler saw that the sense of togetherness in Germany and Austria was going to be used again to create togetherness among a small circle and subverting the use of social feeling by making it a facade for nationalism, racism and imperialism.
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Two decisive forces
Alfred Adler (1870-1937) was a Vienna psychotherapist and medical doctor and founder of individual psychology.
He believed that there were two decisive forces at work in world history and in the life of each individual:
- a striving for power
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Quest for power
The search for self-esteem can become neurotic as the result of brutal parents or a hostile milieu.
There can be over-compensation as well as a closing in on oneself.
Over-compensation can result in a quest for power.
Striving for self-es...
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Alfred Adler was an Austrian physician and psychiatrist who is best-known for forming the school of thought known as individual psychology. He is also remembered for his concepts of the inferiority feeling and inferiority complex, which he believed played a major part in the formation of personality.
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