Essay - Alfred Adler Began His Career as A Psychoanalyst as Part...

Alfred Adler began his career as a psychoanalyst as part of Freud's inner circle. However, he came to t***** conclusion that Freud was incorrect ***** place the source of all personal conflict in our sexual development. (Weider, 1995) So eventually he broke from Freud's philosophy and formed ***** own theory of personality development. His approach emphasizes the person as a soci*****l individual rather than a sexual *****. He put more importance on the values the ***** holds and the choice he makes.

***** saw early childhood as crucial in later personality development. He ***** individuals as constantly working for individual perfection, and he believed that ***** a young child we are profoundly affected by feelings of inadequacy as ***** compare *****selves to our parents. This h***** been described as an "inferiority complex," but that is ***** oversimplification. (Weider, 1995)

***** emphasized ***** psychology. As he looked at the individual, he maintained that "... the conscious ***** unconscious are not contradic*****ry but ***** they form a single unity." (Adler, 1936) He believed that our feelings ***** inferiority while awake ***** revealed in our dream, and he saw this as a connection between wake and sleep states.

The inferiorities we suffer in life are also seen ***** dreams and thereby create a continuum bet*****en wake and *****. (Wilkerson, accessed 2002) In recurring the dream described at the end of this paper, I find myself wandering the halls of a strange building. The building seems to have no entrance or exit, and ***** don't usually know how I got *****re, but I'm searching. Since Adler views *****s ***** a reflection of *****s going on in ***** re*****l life, this could be *****terpreted as a feeling during real life that I feel lost and confused. In the dream, I encounter many obstacles and although I search and search, I can't find a w*****y around them. Adler might view that as the dreamer struggling to get past some ***** ***** powerlessness stemming from early childhood, when we often are very po*****rless.

Since Adler puts emphasis on individual choice and *****, he might say that ***** dream reflects t***** determination of the person to find a way past these psychological barriers. In the dream I don't have a sense of being *****, small, or a child, so he might conclude that this *****er has reason ***** believe ***** will ***** overcome the ***** presented in the dream.

***** (1936) said, "***** methods used in *****terpreting ***** 'conscious' life may be used in interpreting the 'unconscious' or 'semi-conscious' life-the life ***** our dreams. The justification f***** ***** method is that our dream life ***** just as much a part of the whole as our waking life-no more, no less. Only by considering ***** as one of ***** expressions of the style ***** life may an adequate interpretation of them ***** found." Looking at this statement explains why the dreamer in the sample dreams chooses a large building for the setting. Most people have had ***** experience of