YOUTH: So, a superiority complex. That’s a very interesting psychology. Can you give me a different example?
PHILOSOPHER: There’s the kind of person who likes to boast about his achievements.
Someone who clings to his past glory and is always recounting memories of the time when his light shone brightest.
Maybe you know some people like this. All such people can be said to have superiority complexes.
YOUTH: The kind of man who boasts about his achievements? Yes, it is an arrogant attitude, but he can boast because he actually is superior.
You can’t call that a fabricated feeling of superiority.
PHILOSOPHER: Ah, but you are wrong. Those who go so far as to boast about things out loud actually have no confidence in themselves.
As Adler clearly indicates, “The one who boasts does so only out of a feeling of inferiority.”
YOUTH: You’re saying that boasting is an inverted feeling of inferiority? PHILOSOPHER: That’s right.
If one really has confidence in oneself, one doesn’t feel the need to boast. It’s because one’s feeling of inferiority is strong that one boasts.
One feels the need to flaunt one’s superiority all the more.
There’s the fear that if one doesn’t do that, not a single person will accept one “the way I am.”
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