The Fictions and the Antithesis

Editorial

Abstract

It is well known to all how the peculiarity of Alfred Adler's thought derives from his emphasis on the finalistic vision of overcoming the feeling of inferiority, whatever sense inferiority has, that is, on the concept of compensation, that is, on that complex of elements, often genuine, but sometimes also pretextual, useful for counteracting, circumventing or annihilating it, the experience of inadequacy. And it is precisely the aspiration to superiority inherent in every person that, in the irresistible drive toward the coveted affirmative goals, making use of the energy offered by the will to power, achieves the overcoming of the suffered individual inferiority, using, to achieve the coveted result, all the mechanisms at its disposal, both the natural ones and the more artificial ones.
That all living organisms, in a manner appropriate to their development and evolution, are oriented toward survival, is an axiomatic fact.
In the human being, the most perfected of all life forms, at least from the cognitive point of view, the issue becomes even more nodal, to the point that, in order to best satisfy it, he must design and plan his future, even to the point of making this necessity the essential purpose of his existence. In support of this goal, it is sometimes necessary for him also to make use of criteria, in various non-objective ways, to evaluate himself and the world: this is, in essence, the meaning of the phenomenon of fiction