Adler never discusses the life tasks or life-lies in terms of good and evil.
It is not morals or good and evil that we should be discussing, but the issue of courage.
YOUTH: Courage again! PHILOSOPHER: Yes. Even if you are avoiding your life tasks and clinging to your life-lies,
it isn’t because you are steeped in evil. It is not an issue to be condemned from a moralistic standpoint. It is only an issue of courage.
From the Psychology of Possession to the Psychology of Practice
YOUTH: So in the end what you’re talking about is courage?
That reminds me, last time you said that Adlerian psychology is a “psychology of courage.”
PHILOSOPHER: I will add to that by saying that Adlerian psychology is not a “psychology of possession” but a “psychology of use.”
YOUTH: So it’s that statement: “It’s not what one is born with but what use one makes of that equipment.”
PHILOSOPHER: That’s right. Thank you for remembering it. Freudian etiology is a psychology of possession, and eventually it arrives at determinism.
Adlerian psychology, on the other hand, is a psychology of use, and it is you who decides it.
YOUTH: Adlerian psychology is a psychology of courage, and at the same time it is a psychology of use...
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