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"The Meaning of Life" represents the outstanding work of Adler in his last creative period. Here he bears his views and results on central topics of individual psychology such as lifestyle, the tasks of life, and inferiority in a style characterized by great experience and foresight. and the complex of superiority, the neurosis, childhood memories, the feeling of community and the meaning of life. At the same time, he outlines his diagnostic and epistemological positions. Above all, Adler points out to us the great importance that he attaches to the sense of community for a fulfilled and responsible life and for the further development and survival of humanity. His answers to the questions of human coexistence, which take into account both ecological and aspects of transcendence, are more important to us today than ever. In the work "Religion and Individual Psychology" Alfred Adler holds an argument with the Protestant theologian Ernst Jahn on the question of ethical values. Jahn claims the sole representation of theology and therefore wants to see psychotherapy as a mere methodical aid. Adler points to the dwindling influence of the churches and derives their suitability from the scientific claim to validity of individual psychology to compensate for and represent the values ​​of humanity. The controversy is still very topical today.

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In the mid-1920s, Adler and his group of individual psychologists in Vienna devoted themselves intensively to the practice of educational counseling. The book "Human Knowledge" can be seen as the result and foundation of this socio-educational commitment. In it, Adler shows the background and motivations of human behavior and wants to make it understandable. With this in mind, in the first part he deals with basic anthropological questions such as the "social nature of mental life", the child's ability to be influenced in its environment or the "relationship between the sexes". In the second part, Adler focuses on the essence and development of the human character and analyzes various character traits as well as separating and connecting affects. With his character studies he also wants to lead to a deeper understanding of people as "community beings", because "Errors in knowing human nature are life-threatening", writes Adler in the foreword Self-knowledge with a theoretical presentation of its individual psychology.

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Text in German. Volume 3 of the Alfred Adler Study Edition contains 57 essays in which the development of Adler's psychotherapeutic theory can be followed over the years 1913 to 1937: through the consolidation and expansion of his basic concept, the rooting of the concept of community feeling in a life-philosophical basis through to stronger social psychological orientation. According to Adler, the psyche is structured by an unconscious striving. This fundamental principle of all human life aims at superiority to overcome the deficiency of human existence. Through an effort of will to power, a sense of authorship over one's life is achieved. The different characteristics of the individual concept of self and life are concrete realizations of the lifestyle. Adler's view of man is fundamentally optimistic, since he believes it is possible for every human being to overcome or compensate for deficiencies. The individual human being is always considered in his relationship to fellow human beings, to nature and to the cosmos. The individual personality cannot be captured by taking stock of the symptoms or character traits, but one must intuitively guess the nature of the person. Adler sought to understand the uniqueness of the self through its mode of movement, through its law of motion.

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Adler untersuchte bereits in seinen frÃ"hen Schriften die große Bedeutung von sozialen EinflÃ"ssen auf die Persönlichkeitsentwicklung von Menschen. Dies veranlasste ihn, auch nach seiner Trennung von Freud zahlreiche Erziehungsfragen zu thematisieren und in seinen Veröffentlichungen zu behandeln. Der Band 4 der Alfred Adler Studienausgabe enthält die bedeutendsten dieser Schriften.Die kommentierten und mit editorischen Vorbemerkungen versehenen Texte Adlers behandeln unter anderem: die pädagogische Bedeutung der Beziehungserfahrungen von Kinder in den ersten Lebensjahren; pädagogische EinflÃ"sse auf die Entwicklung von SelbstwertgefÃ"hl und Selbstwertregulation; die Bedeutung emotionaler Faktoren fÃ"r die Ausbildung von kognitiven Fähigkeiten und das Zustandekommen schulischer Leistungen; die Entfaltung von GemeinschaftsgefÃ"hl als Gegenbewegung zum Streben nach Macht und Ãberlegenheit; Möglichkeiten der Prophylaxe von Entwicklungs- und Erziehungsschwierigkeiten und deren Bearbeitung in Prozessen der Erziehungsberatung. Adler war Ã"berzeugt, dass die nachhaltige Verbesserung erzieherischer Gegebenheiten an den Erfolg von weitreichenden ReformbemÃ"hungen gebunden ist, die der Dynamik unbewusster Prozesse Rechnung tragen. Deshalb verdeutlichen die vorliegenden Schriften auch Adlers Bedeutung fÃ"r die Entstehung tiefenpsychologischer Ansätze in der Pädagogik sowie die Schwerpunkte seines Einflusses auf die Reformpädagogik des frÃ"hen 20. Jahrhunderts. Diese beziehen sich vor allem auf die Bereiche der Familienerziehung, der Schulpädagogik, der Ausbildung von Pädagogen und der Konzeptualisierung sowie Institutionalisierung von Erziehungsberatung und sind bis heute von Relevanz. Zahlreiche Fallbeispiele lassen Adlers Theorie und seine Art des Arbeitens lebendig werden.

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The 7th volume of the Alfred Adler Study Edition includes 25 essays from Adler's entire creative period (1897 to 1937), in which he comments on social, political and cultural phenomena, takes a committed position on them and discusses them in the light of his psychological theory. The selected texts deal with a wide range of topics such as social medicine, sexuality and social relationships from a social point of view, political and ideological phenomena such as Marxism, Bolshevism, war, mass movements and leaders, questions of literary and artistic psychology. Exciting perspectives open up both on these problem areas and on Adler's theoretical and methodological thinking. A special feature of this volume is that many of these essays were only available in scattered locations in a first publication by Adler himself and were therefore largely unknown until now .

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Text in German. The annotated text-critical edition of this seminal work by Alfred Adler presents the original version from 1912. This makes the state of Adler's theory accessible after his separation from Freud, as he had developed it within the circle around Freud and at the same time against Freud. The variant apparatus documents all changes in the new editions of 1919, 1922 and 1928. This edition can be read like a workshop report from Adler's work on his theory development. The philosophical, psychological and medical-historical interdependencies become clear in the commentary section through the biographical and factual explanations of numerous authors and technical terms named or quoted by Adler. As a result, this edition can serve as a tool for exploring a branch that forms the origin of numerous psychotherapy concepts, with psychosomatic, psychoanalytic or socio-pedagogical ramifications that are still effective today.

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