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.
Kasey Morgan on Maslow: Restoration
11:25 pm, 12.04.13
Haley I always love seeing how you tie psychologists into Christianity. I love the way you can always see God even in our mundane human theories. I agree with what you are saying here. I definitely see Maslow as a restoration philosopher. I really like how you said that Maslow hierarchy is a formula for restoring man. I think that is a very interesting concept!
Kasey Morgan on Maslow and Redemption
11:22 pm, 12.04.13
Hillary, I love what you wrote about Maslow. Speaking from experience, I can see your heart in this and I know that you truly believe that every person can reach their potential. I also agree with how you connected Maslow to our faith. Realizing who we are is very important but realizing whose we are is even more important. I see a lot of the Jonah complex in myself. I never know where to turn and sometimes all you have to do is close your eyes and pray. I really enjoyed your post!
Kasey Morgan on The meaningful life
11:19 pm, 12.04.13
Laura Kate, thank you so much for your blog post. I found it very insightful and thought provoking. I really enjoyed what you said about coming up with what your meaning to life is. As a senior, it’s been really hard to find direction and figure out what I am going to do next. I think that the stage that we are in speaks very highly to that.
Kasey Morgan on Freud and Creation
1:34 pm, 11.18.13
Hillary! We both know that I really admire Freud, and I love that you wrote your post about him. I think your idea of creation fits perfectly. The developmental stages definitely fit into creation because it deals with not only how we are made, but how we progress. Thanks for your post!
Kasey Morgan on Forever Jung
1:25 pm, 11.18.13
Irene, I can’t even deal with your title. I think you are just too hysterical for your own good. I loved your blog post. I think it was a very creative idea to connect sharing testimonies with Jung. His quote that “people are pushed by the past and pulled by the future” really speaks into my life. I think that is a very unique way to look at human behavior. Thanks for your post!
Kasey Morgan on Jung: Redemption
1:17 pm, 11.18.13
Haley! I think your blog post is really interesting! I really like that you explain what Jung brought to the evolutionary perspective. The idea that we are born the way we are is something that is used by a lot of people who are arguing major ideas in today’s culture. I always thought that idea is very saddening because that makes change not worth the time. I like that Jung brought hope and I am glad you wrote about it!
Kasey Morgan on The Whole Heart
11:20 am, 11.04.13
I think your blog post points to something at the very core of our whole faith. Looking at someone as a whole, and not just for their faults or shortcomings, is very central to what we believe. I like that you connected faith to (most of our) major. I thin it was very interesting!
Kasey Morgan on Evolutionary Psychology and the Power of Redemption
11:13 am, 11.04.13
Savannah I immensely enjoyed your post! I think it is very forward thinking to see evolution as a redemptive process. I grew up in a house that never gave much talk to the idea of evolution because it was hard. It was always so much easier to just say that God created the world and leave it at that. I LOVED your idea that God designed us especially to grow and evolve into more is seriously inspiring. If we can come from an ape, there definitely would be something special about us, and there’s no telling what else we could do!
Kasey Morgan on Gestalt and Redemption
11:09 am, 11.04.13
Nicole, I really enjoyed reading your post! I think you are very correct to put Gestalt therapy under redemption. I think it is very interesting that when we look to help people, we are usually looking at them as if they are broken and need fixing. I think you are right to say that this therapy helps them find a stable relationship in which they can find their own experiences and hopefully begin a journey of transformation for.
Kasey Morgan on Physiology and Redemption
10:32 pm, 10.21.13
I absolutely adore this post! I think it was very interesting to pick someone enveloped in the physicality of our bodies and put them into Redemption. I really like when you said that “God has promised that our downfalls and can be turned around”. You really took your faith and combined it with the science of psychology. I appreciate that you see the curing of illnesses as redemption. When you switched gears, I thought it was interesting that you went to the Fall. Phrenology is definitely something that I struggle with understanding because it seems so rudimentary to classify humans in such a way.