The Science of Living
by Alfred Adler
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Originally published in 1930 The Science of Living looks at Individual Psychology as a science. Adler discusses the various elements of Individual Psychology and its application to everyday life: including the inferiority complex, the superiority complex and other social aspects, such as, love and marriage, sex and sexuality, children and their education. This is an important book in the history of psychoanalysis and Adlerian therapy.Tags
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Diamolo per finito, visto che ormai e' mesi che me lo trascino in giro per casa. Saltato molti pezzi. L'ultimo capitolo, che da' il titolo al saggio, pecca di new age ante litteram.
Il 'senso della vita' non emerge chiaramente e alcune tesi scontano la giovane età e la passione dello scienziato: dobbiamo comunque ad Adler la sistematizzazione di alcuni elementi assai importanti, tra cui - più che il senso di inferiorità / superiorita' - mi sentirei di citare il sentimento sociale, e la sua importanza.
Utile, ma non fondamentale.
Il 'senso della vita' non emerge chiaramente e alcune tesi scontano la giovane età e la passione dello scienziato: dobbiamo comunque ad Adler la sistematizzazione di alcuni elementi assai importanti, tra cui - più che il senso di inferiorità / superiorita' - mi sentirei di citare il sentimento sociale, e la sua importanza.
Utile, ma non fondamentale.
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Alfred Adler, a contemporary of Sigmund Freud and C. G. Jung, was one of the founding fathers of modern psychology. He was a core member of the famous Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, of which he became president in 1910. Following an ideological split from Freud, he resigned to found Individual Psychology.
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- Canonical title
- The Science of Living
- Original title
- Der Sinn des Lebens
- Alternate titles
- Understanding Life; Social Interest: Adler's Key to the Meaning of Life; Social Interest: A Challenge to Mankind
- Original publication date
- 1929
- Quotations*
- Het zal velen zijn opgevallen, dat zich onder ongehuwde en om andere redenen geen nakomelingschap hebbende personen vele zeer goed gebouwde mensen bevinden, terwijl dikwijls veel minder aantrekkelijke personen wegens andere v... (show all)oordelen wel aan de voortplanting deelnemen. Hoe dikwijls vindt men niet op een bepaalde plaats mensen, die men daar niet zou verwacht hebben. Hoogtoeristen met korte benen en platvoeten, kleermakers met herkulische gestalte, misvormde lievelingen der vrouwen, waarbij pas een dieper inzicht in de psychische complicaties deze tegenstrijdigheden doet begrijpen. (p. 61, 2nd Dutch edition, 1950)
- Original language
- German
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- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 150.1953 — Philosophy & psychology Psychology Emotions, Relationships, & Family Theory And Instruction Systems, schools, viewpoints Psychoanalytic systems Adlerian system
- LCC
- BF173 .A543 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Psychology Psychology Psychoanalysis
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