The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Monday February 7th, 2022 – World Ballet Day
Alfred Adler – Power and Social Feeling by Rene Wadlow
Alfred Adler, whose birth anniversary we mark on 7 February, believed that there were two decisive forces at work in world history and in the life of each individual: a striving for power and a social feeling. Both forces stemmed from man’s upward striving from inferiority to perfection.
Alfred Adler (1870-1937), a Vienna psychotherapist and medical doctor, was part of the early circle of Sigmund Freud. However, the two men disagreed on what each felt to be fundamental positions. In 1911, Adler left the Freud circle and founded his own approach which he called “individual psychology”.
For Adler, there are similarities between the evolution of man within history and the evolution of each individual. In history, man, a physical dwarf in comparison with the animals around him and the forces of Nature, must compensate for this weakness by developing a pattern of cooperation with other humans around him. Likewise, each child is born, a dwarf in comparison to the adults around him. Thus each child must develop a sense of self-es time. If this development is hindered in some way, as the result of brutal parents or a hostile milieu, the search for self-es time can become neurotic. There can be over-compensation as well as a closing in on oneself.
Continue reading HERE!
“At dawn” #poem & #painting by Amir Khatib
“at dawn,
When the top of the mountain shines
Like a legendary sapphire crown,
And the night has filled my heart with lusts,
I have a desire to steal this mountain!
I know what I have to do;”
Continue reading HERE!
A fistful of cactus #017 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
For more A fistful of cactus, HERE!
For more Ovi Cartoons, HERE!
Ovi magazine
We cover every issue
No comments:
Post a Comment