I on Long Island

Pugnacious little Dr. Alfred Adler, discoverer of the Inferiority Complex, before Depression used to spend a few months in the U. S. each year lecturing clubs. advising child psychologists and displaying himself to learned institutions which wanted to entice him from Vienna. None won until this summer. Next week Dr. Adler begins teaching students of Long Island College of Medicine medical psychology. The appointment runs for five years, and puts a big I on Long Island. For Dr. Alfred Adler is the scientist of the Ego.

At 62 Dr. Adler is grey but dynamic. When he lectures he strides to & fro on the platform, wrinkles his nose so vigorously his eyeglasses quiver. He talks English with an Austrian accent. There is something infantile about his features, something fugitively masked by his glittering eyes and sardonic smile.

Where Max Stirner reasoned, Thomas Carlyle panegyrized and Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche thundered, Alfred Adler demonstrates the Ego. Early this century he was a disciple of great Sigmund Freud, used to join with other disciples at the Freud home. Psychoanalysis was a new, amazing tool which Dr. Freud invented to analyze hysteria, mental kinks, nervous twists of all sorts. Most of the company agreed with Dr. Freud's pontifical decision that suppression was the main source of neuroses.

But little Dr. Adler always kept remembering how humbled and humiliated he had felt as a child. His family had been poor. He had been small, nervous, frequently ill, had resented his schoolmates' bullyragging. As with many another bantam, power became his goal, intellect his tool. He devised a theory: "The striving for superiority and the sense of inferiority go together in every human being. We strive because we feel inferior, and we overcome our feeling of inferiority by successful striving."

Dr. Adler conquered his own Inferiority Complex, bombarded Dr. Freud & disciples so violently with his "defense theory" of neuroses that they, annoyed, threw him out of their group. Dr. Adler established his own school, called it Individual Psychology.

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