Redemption and Adler

Alfred Adler is very interesting man with a set of attention-grabbing theories. Adler started the psychoanalytic move alongside Freud. Although he did help found this movement, Adler rejected Freud’s emphasis on sex and kept with the theory that personality difficulties are rooted in inferiority. Adler’s two contributions that I am going to talk about are fictional finalism and his personality theory.

Fictional finalism was very new to psychology when he first wrote about it. The theory states that there are future fictional goals to which a person aspires. The goals are usually he end to which the person is aspiring. These are also called the self-ideal and the guiding fiction. The second theory that Adler brought to psychology was that the human personality could be explained teleologically. He argued that parts of the individual’s unconscious self ideally work to convert feelings of inferiority to superiority, or completeness.

I believe that these two theories have the ability to place human nature into the Redemption category. Individuals are considered to have their own incomparable life. Adler believed that each person is their own individual being and should be treated as such. The way Adler talks about a persons experience seems to be congruent with the ideas of Redemption.