Intersubjectivity between “Adlerism” and “Theory of Mind”

Editorial

Abstract

Adlerism identifies as a privileged area of research the dialectical relationship between emotional states and relationship: the "feeling of inferiority," which represents the motivational principle of psychic life, and the "emotions" connected to it increasingly corroborate conceptual nuclei that highlight the "primary" importance of relationship in Alfred Adler. It is, in fact, promoter of relational attachment the "feeling of inferiority," source of the concomitant "emotion of insecurity" felt by each individual, from the first day of life.
Every man, precisely as a "finite and mortal" temporal phenomenon always poised between past, present and future, leans out by means of his inexhaustible creative-imaginative attitude toward the infinite, immortality, utopian perfection curative of the "original wound of the basic defect," constructing the fiction of a "future still absent in the realm of the possible," of the "not yet"