1st Edition

The Neurotic Constitution

By Alfred Adler Copyright 1921
    244 Pages
    by Routledge

    244 Pages
    by Routledge

    First Published in 1999. This is Volume II of twenty-one of the Individual Differences Psychology series. Written in 1921, this study outlines a comparative Individualistic Psychology and Psychotherapy.

    Part I Theoretical Part; Introduction; Chapter I The Origin And Development Of The Feeling Of Inferiority And The Consequences Cthereof; Chapter II Psychic Compensation And Its Synthesis; Chapter III The Accentuated Fiction As The Guiding Idea In The Neurosis; Part II Practical Part; Part 2 Chapter I Avarice, Suspiciousness, Envy, Cruelty, The Derogatory Critique Of The Neurotic, Neurotic Apperception, Senile Neuroses, Changes In The Form And Intensity Of The Fiction. Somatic Jargon (Organ-Jargon); Part 2 Chapter II The Neurotic Extension Of Limits Through Asceticism, Love, Desire To Travel, Crime. Simulation And Neurosis. Feeling Of Inferiority Of The Female Sex. Purpose Of An Ideal. Doubt As An Expression Of Psychic Hermaphroditism. Masturbation And Neurosis. The Incest-Complex As A Symbol Of Craving For Dominancy. The Nature Of The Delirium. (Delirium Used In The Sense Of The French: Une Delire.); Part 2 Chapter III Neurotic Principles: Sympathy, Coquetry, Narcissism, Psychic Hermaphroditism, Hallucinatory Security, Virtue, Conscience, Pedantry, Fanatic Attachment To Truth; Part 2 Chapter IV The Derogatory Tendency To Disparage Others; Obstinacy And Wildness; The Sexual Relations Of Neurotics As A Means Of Comparison; Symbolic Emasculation; Feeling Of Being Belittled; Equality To Man As A Life-Plan; Simulation And Neurosis; Substitute For Masculinity; Impatience; Discontent; Inaccessibility; Part 2 Chapter V Cruelty.Conscience.Perversion And Neurosis; Part 2 Chapter VI The Antithesis Above-Beneath, Choice Of A Profession, Somnambulism, Antithesis In Thought, Elevation Of The Personality Through The Disparagement Of Others, Jealousy, Neurotic Auxiliaries, Authoritative, Thinking In Antitheses And The Masculine Protest, Dilatory Attitude And Marriage, The Tendency Upward As A Symbol Of Life, Compulsion To Masturbation, The Neurotic Striving For Knowledge; Part 2 Chapter VII Punctuality, The Will To Be First, Homosexuality And Perversion As A Symbol, Modesty And Exh

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    ALFRED ADLER