Adler: Narcissism is Social, Striving for Superiority, Excess Self-efficacy (Contra Freud)

Adler, Alfred (1870–1937)’s individual psychology emphasizes: 1. The impact of society and other people on individual development and lifestyle (personality); 2. The role of the intolerable inferiority complex that drives us to 3. Striving to become superior via attainments and accomplishments or via pathological superiority (excess self-efficacy, aka narcissism). Summary https://vakninsummaries.com/adler-nar... Transcript https://vaknintranscripts.com/2026/02... LITERATURE (From Freud's World: An Encyclopedia of His Life and Times by Luis A. Cordón, Greenwood, 2012): Adler, A. (1917). Study of Organ Inferiority and Its Psychical Compensation . New York: Nervous and Mental Disease Publishing Company. Adler, A. (1959). The Progress of Mankind. In K. Adler and D. Deutsch, eds. Essays in Individual Psychology. New York: Grove, pp. 3–8. Adler, A. (1964). Social Interest: A Challenge to Mankind. New York: Capricorn Books. Freud, S. (1914/1957). On the History of the Psycho-Analytic Movement. Standard Edition, 14. London: Hogarth Press, pp. 7–66. Freud, S. (1963). Psychoanalysis and Faith: The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Oskar Pfister (Translated by E. Mosbacher). London: Hogarth Press. Freud, S. (1965). A Psycho-Analytic Dialogue: The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Karl Abraham (Translated by B. Marsh and H. Abraham). New York: Basic Books. Find and Buy MOST of my BOOKS and eBOOKS in my Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/60...