Striving for Superiority & Social Interest: An Adlerian View (Theme Pack 5 on Selected Topics)

Theme Pack 5 - Striving & Social Interest: "The Origin of the Striving for Superiority & Social Interest," by Alfred Adler. Every individual strives for completeness. Variations are the striving for perfection, superiority, and power, yielding different degress of social usefulness. The basic direction of human evolution is social feeling which needs social understanding in order to develop. This Theme Pack includes Chapter XXVI from "The Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler" - Volume 7 (4 pages), as well as a condensed overview of Classical Adlerian Psychology.