"Live the Meaning of Life" is a famous book by the famous psychologist Alfred Adler. The English title is What life should mean to you, and the Chinese version is also translated as "Inferiority and Transcendence" .

There are 12 chapters in the book. At the beginning, the question of the book is raised: Why are we born? Then it starts from various aspects such as childhood experience, family of origin, school education, adolescent problems, career choices, marriage and love life, etc. It is based on a large number of diagnosis and treatment cases and guided by the core theory of individual psychology, making the book read like a story. There is also depth of thought.

One of the important discoveries in the "individual psychology" pioneered by Adler: the inferiority complex is now known to almost everyone, and has also influenced many subsequent schools of psychology.

The author's academic system perspective

Adler's theory centers on "inferiority complex" and "creative self" and emphasizes "social consciousness". The main concepts are creative self, life style, imaginary teleology, pursuit of superiority, inferiority complex, compensation and social interests. He inherited and developed Freud's psychoanalytic ideas, but his basic views were quite different from them.

Individual psychology believes that human behavior is determined by social forces. Human beings are born as social beings. In social life, people communicate with each other, depend on each other, and cooperate with each other: Freud emphasized human biological instincts. The growth process of human beings is the natural unfolding of human instincts, and their behaviors It is determined innately.

Secondly, individual psychology regards personality as a unified whole and emphasizes its indivisibility. Adler believed that each person's personality is a unified whole composed of various motivations, traits, interests, and values; Lloyd divided personality into different parts: id, ego, and superego, and each part performs its own function.