Alfred Adler He was an eminent Austrian psychotherapist who lived between 1870 and 1937. Adler was part of the first generation of psychoanalysts, being a participant in the emergence and spread of psychoanalysis.
But Alfred Adler began to find differences between his thinking and the postulates of Freudian psychoanalysis so little by little he began to distance himself, until finally in 1911 he decided to permanently separate from the psychoanalytic school.
Adler was doctor by profession coming to practice as an ophthalmologist and internist. He began to study psychotherapy after meeting Freud and his psychoanalytic theory, of which he became a great adept. Adler quickly rose through the ranks of the psychoanalytic circle, becoming part of the editorial board of the psychoanalysis magazine and the "Wednesday psychological society”Study group that met in Freud's house.
One year before his break with this trend, he was appointed president of the Vienna section of the psychoanalytic society. Adler advanced his studies on the theory individually and surprisingly, being one of the main guarantors, was one of the first and strongest critics of the postulates of psychoanalysis.
The individual psychology proposed by Alfred Adler deals with the possibility of each subject to constantly improve himself in order to achieve a better integration between being and the world. For this, the subject uses 7 principles of individuation in the human being according to Adler.
Below we will briefly show you the seven principles proposed by Alfred Adler through which the human being manages to transcend in the journey towards the individuation of the being. The I.
According to the theorist, the human being reaches a point in terms of being aware of his environment, in which he becomes aware of the shortcomings around him or inside him, and usually compensates for these displacing negative energy towards one's own being blaming himself for the circumstances.
According to Adler this type of complex usually leads to focused somatic diseases related to the function or feeling of inferiority that the subject presents. (For example, a pianist with pain in hands and fingers).
The superiority complex proposed by Alfred postulates that given the complications of what is proposed in the inferiority complex, the subject compensates for these shortcomings with a feeling of superiority towards those signifiers in which he feels stronger or capable.
Lifestyle is defined by Adler as one of the variables of individuation, as it is the result of the sum between inferiority complex and superiority contrasted with the environment and context. In other words, lifestyle is a situation halfway between what the subject wants and what the environment offers. Unless of course I manage to modify this balance for better or for worse.
The human being undoubtedly has a superior creative capacity and thus every day generates a new world adapted to your wishes and needs. Alfred Adler makes a parallel with the above, applying this creativity based on the creation of new personalities that adapt to new environments.
Beyond expectations, inferiority and superiority, lie our own insights into the world both internal and external. the conscious ego for Adler is the one that connects us in a divine way with reality.
Undoubtedly, this is one of the factors with the greatest influence on the development of the individual, although in the first instance it does not seem like it, and it is that fantasy goals are what we know as dreams, but not in the dream or sleep sense, goals and fantasies of future achievements what we have.
Obviously, fantasy goals can configure the world of a subject and totally change his way of thinking and acting in front of the environment that surrounds him..
The last of the variables proposed by Alfred Adler is social interest. With this, the theorist postulates that the subject tends to improve society to the extent that he considers the possibility that a better society (Family, work group, friends etc ...) will help you become a better subject.
As we can see, Alfred Adler's individual psychology reveals the possibility of a subject guiding himself towards unconscious goals, which differs from psychoanalysis that focused at the moment on sexual theory with an individual guiding himself using his traumas to it.
Adler after arduous studies postulates that most altered mental states respond to an ego-lined unconscious that prevents social cooperation. These types of theories have received great criticism over time.
It is worth noting that, the postulates of Alfred Adler result in forms of pedagogy and psychotherapy that differ from what their name may indicate and tend not to individuality but to human cooperation.
According to Adler, cooperation and social interaction is the only one capable of polishing the ego's lags, compensating the self-perception of inferiority and regulating behaviors derived from the feeling of superiority..
The above, taking into account the teleological approach of the theory, that is, that the subject always has a conscious or unconscious goal and goes from point A to point B, even if he does not know what he is doing or what he is doing..
In this sense and finally, it is important to mention that the personality according to Alfred Adler is the result between the goal and the methods used to achieve it. That is, personality in this sense is the attitude with which the subject assumes the world and the obstacles that prevent him from reaching his goal as an individual..
Theories of individual psychology have served as a floor for modern humanist currents that seek to strengthen the Self. in order to achieve the desired I Am that leads the subject to achieve the goals that he / she proposes in his / her destiny.
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