Editorial

Abstract

"Individual Psychology, which had seen the light of day in 1912, was only in its infancy, but its basic assumptions were already crisp and accomplished: for example, the concept of the life plan, which constitutes the basic subject of the paper we offer here for the attention of our readers, that is, that finalistically oriented psychological project which the individual conceives in order to adapt his attitude toward the reality he himself unconsciously prefigures for his future, is already limpidly fixed. From reading the text, moreover, we can infer that the idea of the life plan will have an enormous, if not total, conditioning function on what will be, in later years, the representation of the way of life, since the life plan is but the result of a play, harmonious or decomposed, involving social feeling, the will to power, manly protest and the feeling of inferiority"