The autobiographical roots of Alfred Adler’s Individual Psychology

Journal title PSICOTERAPIA E SCIENZE UMANE
Author/s Cesare Romano
Publishing Year 2022 Issue 2022/1
Language Italian Pages 20 P. 37-56 File size 342 KB
DOI 10.3280/PU2022-001007
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Starting from the acknowledgment that a researcher’s emotional life and personal history may affect his theoretical constructs, it is argued, according to some autobiographical memories of Al-fred Adler, that his childhood illness affected the theoretical construction of his Individual Psy-chology: in particular, organ inferiority, will to power, and masculine protest. Such key aspects of his personal theory lead us to think that his childhood experiences largely molded his theorizing. It is also hypothesized that the rivalry with his eldest brother Sigmund shaped his rivalry towards Freud.

Keywords: Alfred Adler; Childhood memories; Individual Psychology; Freud; Vienna psychoanalytical society

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Cesare Romano, Le radici autobiografiche della Psicologia Individuale di Alfred Adler in "PSICOTERAPIA E SCIENZE UMANE" 1/2022, pp 37-56, DOI: 10.3280/PU2022-001007