So much so that Adler himself pointed out, “In our culture weakness can be quite strong and powerful.”
YOUTH: So weakness is powerful? PHILOSOPHER: Adler says, “In fact, if we were to ask ourselves who is the strongest person in our culture,
the logical answer would be, the baby. The baby rules and cannot be dominated.”
The baby rules over the adults with his weakness. And it is because of this weakness that no one can control him.
YOUTH: I’ve never encountered that viewpoint. PHILOSOPHER: Of course, the words of the person who has been hurt—
“You don’t understand how I feel”—are likely to contain a certain degree of truth.
Completely understanding the feelings of the person who is suffering is something that no one is capable of.
But as long as one continues to use one’s misfortune to one’s advantage in order to be “special,” one will always need that misfortune.
The youth and philosopher had now covered a series of discussion topics: the feeling of inferiority, the inferiority complex, and the superiority complex.
Psychology keywords though they clearly were, the truths they contained differed greatly from the youth’s imagined meanings.
Still, something didn’t feel right to him, somehow. What is it about all this that I’m having a hard time accepting?
Well, it must be the introductory part, the premise, that is giving me doubts. The youth calmly opened his mouth to speak.
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