'Superiority' Adler Topic

Los Angeles Examiner, 15 February 1929, section I, p. 13. Unsigned short report of the lecture "The Style of Life" given by Alfred Adler under the auspices of the graduate school of the University of Southern California on the afternoon of 14 February 1929; overcoming the natural feeling of inferiority, no two persons alike, the limited importance of heredity, the weak child.

Periodista sin firma

'SUPERIORITY' ADLER TOPIC

Man's great goal as an individual is to overcome his natural feeling of inferiority and to develop a feeling of superiority, according to Dr. Alfred Adler, noted Viennese psychiatrist, who spoke on "The Style of Life" at the University of Southern California yesterday afternoon under the direction of the graduate school.

Dr. Adler, who is the founder of the Society for Individual Psychology, declared that no two persons areexactly alike, and that the problems of each must be considered separately as factors developing the "style of life." He minimized the importance of inherited tendencies, saying that these are affected by environment, particularly during the formative years.

If a child is weak in any way, Doctor Adler said, his inferiority complex is more pronounced, and he is likely to center his attention so much on overcoming his weakness that his adjustment to society will be affected.

Doctor Adler was introduced by Dean Karl T. Waugh of the College of Liberal Arts. Dean Rockwell Hunt of the graduate school presided.

Fuente: "'Superiority' Adler Topic", Los Angeles Examiner, Friday, 15 February 1929, section I, p. 13, cols. 6-7, unsigned. Transcribed from the page image of the California Digital Newspaper Collection (CDNC, LAE19290215.1.13), where the platform OCR reads only the second line of the headline ("HOLER TOPIC"). The whole piece is legible; "areexactly" is printed thus. The rest of the page is omitted.