The striving for significance, this sense of yearning, alwa… - Alfred Adler

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The striving for significance, this sense of yearning, always points out to us that all psychological phenomena contain a movement that starts from a feeling of inferiority and reach upward. The theory of Individual Psychology of psychological compensation states that the stronger the feeling of inferiority, the higher the goal for personal power.

Alfred Adler

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Alfred Adler (February 7, 1870 – May 28, 1937) was an Austrian medical doctor and psychologist.

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