In veD stsNg (learning
and sharing) sessions hosted and moderated by PVAF since 1996, many times the participants have
asked:
" why one cannot do what one really wants to do.... and
one knows it to be the right
thing to do... even if doing it means going against the "standard" lifestyle in
practice in a place at the time....
veDikly the answer is to do with one's kARm
of
past lives which creates the nature of one's ego = aHNkaar
in one's current life...one
of the factors emanating from one's aHNkaar stopping one to do what is right is INFERIORITY COMPLEX ....
INFERIORITY COMPLEX means (from Webster's
Third International Dictionary):
"an acute sense of personal inferiority
resulting either in timidity or through overcompensation in exaggerated
aggressiveness; broadly speaking a sense of being inferior or at a
disadvantage; lack of assurance.
Below is a quote from Alfred Adler (1870-1937, an Austrian psychiatrist,
psychologist and scientist) on inferiority complex:
"Everyone . . . has a feeling of
inferiority.
But the feeling of inferiority
is not a disease;
it is rather a stimulant to health, normal striving and development.
Inferiority complex becomes
a pathological condition only when
the sense of inadequacy overcomes the individual
and,
far from stimulating him to useful activity,
makes him depressed and incapable of development."
In veD = SCIENCE OF CREATION AND LIFE, inferiority complex
is produced
from the kARm-sNskaar-shesh which is the personal characteristics of a human
being a the time of birth brought over from the kARm, kARm-fl, habits and traits
of previous lives which stay in the continuing travels of one's
aatmaa in various living bodies.....
Inferiority complex works in the domains of
aHNkaar in a person and is tempered by the domain of
buDHDHi.....Please click on
the next line to read the preceding veDik aspects in the current field of
psychology and psychiatry which has quite a bit of Alfred Adler's thinking in
understanding and treating inferiority complex...(PVAF
invites YOU to join the stsNg on this topic...click on POST A COMMENT in the
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INFERIORITY COMPLEX
AS PER ALFRED ALDER
(The current science
relating to veDik concepts is highlighted in bold blue and red)
Alfred Adler was particularly interested in sibling relationships, birth
order, and relationships with parents. He would ask patients about their early
memories and use this information to analyze their attitudes, beliefs, and
behaviors. He helped his patients by encouraging them to
meet important life goals: love, work, and friendship.
For Adler and modern therapists who draw from his work, interest in others and
participation in society are important goals of therapy. Adlerian therapists see
therapy in part as educational, and they use a number of innovative action
techniques to help patients change mistaken beliefs and
interact more fully with family members and others.
Adler developed a theory of organic inferiority and compensation
(hypertrophy), with the "masculine protest" as the natural outcome in
male-dominated society. Adler believed that the repression theory of Freud
should be replaced with the concept of ego-defensive
tendencies - the neurotic state derived from inferiority feelings and
over compensation of the masculine protest.
Alfred Adler wrote a book defining his key ideas in 1912: Über den nervösen
Charakter: He argued that human personality could be
explained teleologically:
separate strands dominated by the guiding purpose of the individual's
unconscious self ideal to convert feelings of inferiority to superiority (or
rather completeness). The desires of the
self ideal were countered by social and ethical demands. If the
corrective factors were disregarded and the individual over-compensated then a
inferiority complex would occur, the individual would become egocentric,
power-hungry and aggressive or worse.
TELEOLOGY means:
- the philosophical study of evidences of design in nature;
- the doctrine or belief that ends are immanent in nature (as in
vitalism and holism); a metaphysical doctrine explaining
phenomena and events by final causes;
- the fact or the character of being directed toward an end or shaped by a
purpose used of natural processes or of nature as a whole conceived as
determined by final causes or by the design of a
divine Providence and opposed to purely mechanical determinism or
causation exclusively by what is temporally antecedent; (veDik
comment: majority of all that happens in one's current life is due to
kARm-fl of previous lives to be partaken in the current life and can be
said to be final causes mentioned herein)
- the use of design, purpose, or utility as an explanation of any
natural phenomenon
- TELEOLOGY is compared to ENTELECHY means:
- in Aristotle: the full realization of
form-giving cause or energeia as contrasted with mere potential
existence
- the form that actuates this realization
- in modern philosophy : something that contains or realizes
an end or final cause
- in modern philosophy : a supposititious immanent but immaterial agency
held by some vitalists to regulate or direct the
vital processes (called pRaaAN in
veD) of an organism especially toward the achievement of
maturity.
- ENTELECHY is compared to ELAN VITAL called
pRaaAN in veD) : the vital
force or impulse of life specifically : the creative
principle and fundamental reality held by Bergson to be immanent in all
organisms and responsible for evolution.
Therapeutically Alder's methods avoided the concentration on adult
psyche by attempting to
pre-empt the problems in the child by encouraging and
promoting social interest and but avoiding pampering and neglect. In
adults the therapy relied on the exclusion of blame or a superior attitude by
the practitioner, the reduction of resistance by raising awareness of individual
behaviour and the refusal to become adversarial. Common therapeutic tools
included the use of humour, historical instances and paradoxical injunctions.
(Above extracts from
Wikipedia &
web site:
Alfred Adler Institute of San Francisco
and Webster's Third International
Dictionary and ENCARTA)
Biographical Sketch of Alfred Adler
![[adler photograph]](adl-phot.gif)
Alfred Adler was born in Vienna, Austria on February 7, 1870. During the
early decades of this century he originated the ideas which, to a large extent,
have been incorporated in the mainstream of present-day theory and practice of
psychology and psychopathology.
The second of six children, Adler spent his childhood in the suburbs of
Vienna. He remembered that when he was about 5 years old, gravely ill with
pneumonia, the physician told his father that he doubted the child would
recover. It was at that time that Alfred decided he wanted to become a doctor so
that he might be able to fight deadly diseases. He never changed his mind, and
in 1895 he acquired his M.D. degree at the University of Vienna.
He was very close to his father and remembered his repeatedly saying to him
during their walks through the Vienna woods, "Alfred, do not believe anything."
When one realizes how in later life Adler always challenged statements unless he
felt they could be accepted without reasonable doubt, his vivid recollection of
this somewhat unusual admonition of his father is understandable. Another
childhood recollection that stood out in his memory, and which he liked to tell
to children having difficulty with their school work, recalled an occasion when
a teacher had suggested that his father take Alfred out of school and apprentice
him to a cobbler, since he never would graduate anyway. His father only scoffed
at the teacher and expressed his disapproval of him to his son. At the time
Alfred, having lost interest in school, had failed in mathematics. He now
decided to show the teacher what he could do: in a short time he became first in
his class in mathematics and never again experienced any difficulties in his
studies.
In 1898, at age 28, Adler wrote his first book, which deals with the health
conditions of tailors. In it he sets forth what later was to become one of the
main tenets of his school of thought: the necessity of looking at man as a
whole, as a functioning entity, reacting to his environment as well as to his
physical endowment, rather than as a summation of instincts, drives and other
psychologic manifestations.
In 1902, when Adler was one of the few who reacted favorably to his book on
dream interpretations, Freud sent him a hand-written postcard suggesting he join
the circle which met weekly in Freud's home to discuss newer aspects of
psychopathology. At that time Adler had already started collecting material on
patients with physical handicaps, studying both their organic and psychologic
reactions to them. Only when Freud had assured him that in his circle a variety
of views, including Adler's, would be discussed did Adler accept the invitation.
Five years later, in 1907, Adler published his book on organ inferiority and
its compensation. From then on, the difference between Freud's and Adler's views
became steadily more marked. Adler had never accepted Freud's original theories
that mental difficulties were caused exclusively by a sexual trauma, and he
opposed the generalizations when dreams were interpreted, in each instance, as
sexual wish fulfillment. After prolonged discussions, during which each of the
two men tried to win the other over to his point of view--attempts doomed to
failure from the start-- Adler left Freud's circle in 1911 with a group of eight
colleagues and formed his own school. After that, Freud and Adler never met
again.
In 1912 Adler published his book, The Neurotic Constitution, in which
he further developed his main concepts. He called his psychologic system
"Individual Psychology," a term which is sometimes misunderstood. It refers to
the indivisibility of the personality in its psychologic structure. His next
book, Understanding Human Nature, which comprises lectures given at the
Viennese Institute for Adult Education, is still on the required-reading list of
some American high schools.
After returning from war duty in 1918, Adler founded several child guidance
clinics in Vienna. These were soon visited by professionals from abroad,
stimulating the development of similar clinics in other countries.
In 1926 Adler was invited to lecture at Columbia University, and from 1932 on
he held the first chair of Visiting Professor of Medical Psychology at Long
Island College of Medicine. During these and the following years he spent only
the summer months, from May to October, in Vienna, and the academic year
lecturing in the States. His family joined him there in 1935.
Adler's lectures were overcrowded from the beginning, and he communicated as
easily with his audiences in English as he did when using his native German
tongue. He was in Aberdeen, Scotland, to deliver a series of lectures at the
University when, on May 28, 1937, he suddenly collapsed while walking in the
street and died from heart failure within a few minutes.
From web site:
Alfred Adler Institute of San Francisco
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