Alfred Adler on Wednesdays Evening to the Freud’s (Sixth Part): "the unity of neurosis"

Abstract

Report: "The Unity of Neuroses"

Adler systematically summarizes his foundational epistemological principles:

- organic inferiority;

- the aggressive drive understood as a drive "weave" in continuous dynamic evolution-transformation in antithesis to the primacy of the Freudian libidinal drive;

- hypersensitivity conceived as the basis of the later subjectivist-phenomenological approach;

- holism in opposition to the Freudian tendency to dichotomize and compartmentalize