Adlerian concepts

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why and how did adler differ from freud and jung in his concepts?

-- Candle in the Wind (wish4angels@hotmail.com), March 17, 2001

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Hi Candle, at the risk of over-simplifying, and I don't know what else I could do here, with regards to motivation, which of course is unconscious with these folks, they all started out on the same page which Freud wrote coming at motivation from a biological perspective, Freud said the mainspring of behaviour was sex broadly defined (read Darwin in this). As time went on Adler and Jung thought that was too narrowly defined. Adler thought at least some behavior came from an unconscious power motive. Jung, searching for the evolution of the unconscious and influenced by anthropology/comparative religion, came to think there was a pantheon of innate archtypes which our, and everyone else's too, unconscious included. The why is more difficult and probably has to do with their individual temperments, the specific kinds of clients they helped, and random social/historical influences; you could trace out their individual life history and then come up with a best fit hypothesis. Or why might be as easy as once Adler and Jung learned Freud's basic model and method then they could elaborate on it with their own ideas. Best, David

-- david clark (doclark@yorku.ca), March 17, 2001.

alfred adler believed a person should compensate and rise above any problems you have in life.freud thought you were a product of what happened to you early in life.adler felt you could compensate for difficulties you experienced and be a better person for it.adler also thought everyone was equal,freud believed women were inferior to men.alfred was a class act compared to freud.

-- gary w. biscontini (gbrbgb01@cs.com), March 21, 2001.

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