The outstanding Austrian psychotherapist Alfred Adler believed that the main goal and meaning of human life is the desire for superiority (overcoming the feeling of one’s own inferiority) and the need to feel a sense of community with other people.
The outstanding Austrian psychotherapist Alfred Adler believed that the main goal and meaning of human life is the desire for superiority (overcoming the feeling of one’s own inferiority) and the need to feel a sense of community with other people. Therefore, he considered neurotic symptoms and psychological difficulties precisely from this point of view, arguing that their source is the inability to achieve the desired goal, to feel one’s strength, one’s perfection. His book is a collection of works written in different years, in which he formulates and develops the main theses of his theory of individual psychology, which his colleagues called «the psychology of common sense.»