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PSYX 100IS
Alfred Adler: Theories of Inferiority Feeling and Complex
Montana State University
PSYX 100IS: Intro to Psychology
Alfred Adler was an Austrian psychologist who is remembered for his concepts of the
inferiority complex and inferiority feeling. He differed from Freud in that he believed every
human is unique, an individual. While other psychologists attempted to relate mankind to
animals and machines, Adler strove to identify what sets man apart. He also studied theories
such as birth order, and the effect it has on one's personality. Adler still has an effect on
modern psychology, and his theories are still considered to this day.
Alfred Adler was born in Vienna, in 1870. From quite an early age, he developed
rickets, which is a disease that softens or weakens the bones. Developing pneumonia at the
age of 4, no one expected Alfred to survive. However, he miraculously did, and resolved to
become a physician from that day forward. At the University of Vienna, he was highly
interested in phycology, sociology and philosophy. After attending college, he specialized as
an eye doctor later switching to neurology and psychiatry.
In 1902 Sigmund Freud invited Adler to join him, and a variety of men to join
a
discussion group. Labeled the ‘Wednesday Society’ (as they would meet in Freud's living room
every Wednesday) would present papers, then after a short break of coffee and dessert, would
discuss the papers. It was here that Adler presented his paper: “The aggressive instinct in life
and in neurosis”, at the time that Freud claimed it was the early sexually development of an
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