PSY 4130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Feminine Psychology, Karen Horney, Hans Vaihinger

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 4130
• Professor: Danielle Impey

Document Summary

Organ inferiority and compensation: adler believed that physical and mental illness have a physiological origin, people are sensitive to disease in organs that are inferior to other organs. Feelings of inferiority: adler contended that all humans have feelings of inferiority or weakness. These feelings motivate people first as children and later as adults to gain power to overcome these feelings: he suggested that people strive for superiority. By this, he meant to overcome these feelings by striving to be the best he or she can be not to have power over other people. Worldviews, fictional goals, and lifestyles: the child develops a worldview from early experiences. From this worldview come guiding fictions (future goals that are reasonable given a child"s worldview) and. From the fictions comes a lifestyle: the lifestyle encompasses the activities performed while pursuing one"s goals. Which aspects of life are focused on and how problems are solved.