By Alfred Adler

Initially released in 1930 The technological know-how of Living seems to be at person Psychology as a technological know-how. Adler discusses some of the components of person Psychology and its software to lifestyle: together with the inferiority advanced, the prevalence complicated and different social points, corresponding to, love and marriage, intercourse and sexuality, kids and their schooling. this is often a massive booklet within the historical past of psychoanalysis and Adlerian remedy.

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It is merely a question of discovering the purpose of their joint movement. It is impossible to decide on what is conscious and what is not until the whole connection has been obtained. This connection is revealed in the prototype, that pattern of life which we analyzed in the last chapter. A case history will serve to illustrate the intimate connection between conscious and unconscious life. A married man, forty years old, suffered from one nnxiety-a desire to jump out of 56 THE INFERIORITY COMPLEX the window.

There are many psychologies and psychiatries in existence. One psychologist takes one direction, another another direction, and no one believes that the others are right. Perhaps the reader, too, should not rely on belief and faith. Let him compare. He will see that we cannot agree with what is called "drive" p'sychology (l\1cDougall represents this' tendency best in America), because in their "drives" too big a place is set aside for inherited tendencies. Similarly we cannot agree with the "conditioning" and "reactions" of Behaviorism.

This excluding attitude may of course be variously expressed: for instance, the child may become bashful, or on 43 THE SCIENCE OF LIVING the other hand, he may become perverted sexually (which is simply another way of excluding women). Such perversions are not inherited, but arise from the environment surrounding the child in these years. The early mistakes of the child are costly. And despite this fact the child receives little guidance. Parents do not know or will not confess to the child the results of their experiences~ and the child must thus follow his own line.

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