Word: adlerians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...terms of Adlerian psychology, this dream revealed both pessimism and courage. It was also a pretty accurate prophecy. Adler made the U.S. his home for the last three years of his life, but in collision with both Freudians and Jungians, his fame and influence took a hard beating. Today, 21 years after his death in Scotland (where he was lecturing), Adler's Individual Psychology is still the Cinderella of depth psychology's Big Three. To Freudians, Adler's views are superficial and inadequate; to more mystical Jungians, they seem earth-bound and unimaginative...
...seat and I wake up terrified in the act of falling." For the Freudian, the barn is a symbol of the female genitalia; the dream represents a tendency to return to the womb, but because this has undertones of incestuous desire, it would be followed by punishment (castration). An Adlerian would interpret the overloaded wagon as an exaggerated will to power, in compensation for an inferiority complex...
...started to collect a library when still in grade school, and with fanatic neatness insisted that the books must always be kept in exact order. His first pupil was his younger sister Carolyn. The first lesson was an early Adlerian version of evolution. Mortimer declared: "You ought to know the facts of life. First there are fish, then come monkeys, and then little girls. Mother will tell you the rest...