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• Adler: frustration and the people by Markus Bodler, 1/23/98
  
  

In the third paragraph of the previous message, the phrase "Dayton, Marat, ..." should be changed to "Danton, Marat ..." (Spell-checking doesn't always improve text.)

Another reference may be helpful to you. In "Salvaging Mankind by Psychology" (IZIP, volume 3), Adler wrote about how individuals and groups attempt to erase their sense of inferiority, and about mass movements utilizing destructive means to gain release from situations that are felt to be intolerable. Oliver Brachfield, in Inferiority Feelings in the Individual and the Group, may have addressed similar issues.

It is important to note that, in his later writings, Adler de-emphasized the motivational significance of inferiority feelings, and focused instead on the primacy of the striving for significance.

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