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William Ambrose Adler...
...psychological drawings, compositions of nude female figures drawn "with a blank mind," with no conscious effort, which she calls "dialectic" drawings.* At various parties last winter she showed them to friends, with a magic lantern and a typewritten manuscript of stage directions and remarks, while her friend Professor Mortimer Adler of her husband's psychology department attempted to clear things up by reciting explanatory poems in free verse. A typical Adler...
...Adler conquered his own Inferiority Complex, bombarded Dr. Freud & disciples so violently with his "defense theory" of neuroses that they, annoyed, threw him out of their group. Dr. Adler established his own school, called it Individual Psychology...
Where Max Stirner reasoned, Thomas Carlyle panegyrized and Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche thundered, Alfred Adler demonstrates the Ego. Early this century he was a disciple of great Sigmund Freud, used to join with other disciples at the Freud home. Psychoanalysis was a new, amazing tool which Dr. Freud invented to analyze hysteria, mental kinks, nervous twists of all sorts. Most of the company agreed with Dr. Freud's pontifical decision that suppression was the main source of neuroses...
...little Dr. Adler always kept remembering how humbled and humiliated he had felt as a child. His family had been poor. He had been small, nervous, frequently ill, had resented his schoolmates' bullyragging. As with many another bantam, power became his goal, intellect his tool. He devised a theory: "The striving for superiority and the sense of inferiority go together in every human being. We strive because we feel inferior, and we overcome our feeling of inferiority by successful striving...