PHILOSOPHER: This is something I believe I went over last time—that forming good interpersonal relationships requires a certain degree of distance.
At the same time, people who get too close end up not even being able to speak to each other, so it is not good to get too far apart, either.
Please do not think of the separation of tasks as something that is meant to keep other people away;
instead, see it as a way of thinking with which to unravel the threads of the complex entanglement of one’s interpersonal relations.
YOUTH: To unravel the threads? PHILOSOPHER: Exactly.
Right now, your threads and other people’s threads are all tangled up in a confused mess, and you are looking at the world while in that condition.
Red, blue, brown, and green—all the colors mixing together—you think of it as “connection.” But it is not.
YOUTH: So, then, what do you think connection is? PHILOSOPHER: Last time,
I spoke of the separation of tasks as a prescription for resolving interpersonal relationship problems.
But interpersonal relationships are not something that end just because one has separated the tasks.
The separating of tasks is actually the point of departure for interpersonal relations.
Today, let’s take the discussion deeper and address how interpersonal relations as a whole are viewed in Adlerian psychology,
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