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Adler and Inferiority

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Adler held that striving to overcome felt inferiority, and the desire to belong, are the central motives of personality.

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A person's drive toward achievement is traced to compensating for early felt inadequacy.

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Adler broke with Freud over the primacy of sexuality. The neo-Freudians share the framework and not the content.

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