Adler himself acknowledged that the community he was espousing was “an unattainable ideal.”
YOUTH: Ha-ha. Well, that’s perplexing, isn’t it? How about the other way around, then?
Do you really comprehend and accept this community feeling, or whatever it is, that includes the entire universe?
PHILOSOPHER: I try to. Because I feel that one cannot truly comprehend Adlerian psychology without comprehending this point.
YOUTH: Okay then! PHILOSOPHER: As I have been saying all along,
Adlerian psychology has the view that all problems are interpersonal relationship problems.
Interpersonal relations are the source of unhappiness. And the opposite can be said, toointerpersonal relations are the source of happiness.
YOUTH: Indeed. PHILOSOPHER: Furthermore, community feeling is the most important index for considering a state of interpersonal relations that is happy.
YOUTH: All right. I’d like to hear all about it. PHILOSOPHER: Community feeling is also referred to as “social interest,”
that is to say, “interest in society.” So now I have a question for you:
Do you know what society’s smallest unit is, from the point of view of sociology?
YOUTH: Society’s smallest unit, huh? I’d say the family.
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