单词 | inferiority complex |
释义 | > as lemmasinferiority complex inferiority complex n. generalized and unrealistic feelings of inadequacy caused by a person's reactions to actual or supposed inferiority in one sphere, sometimes compensated for by aggressive self-assertion; colloquial, exaggerated feelings of personal inadequacy; also inferiority feeling. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > theory of psychoanalysis > libido > obsession > [noun] > with inadequacy inferiority complex1916 1916 B. Hall Diary 26 Dec. in B. Hall & J. J. Niles One Man's War (1929) xxvii. 221 I discovered that the British like a person who appears to have an inferiority complex. 1922 A. G. Tansley New Psychol. (rev. ed.) xix. 214 Thus the ‘inferiority complex’ may account for a whole series of well-known human traits. 1924 C. Mackenzie Heavenly Ladder xxiii. 288 I could psycho-analyse all Bloomsbury now. They all suffer from an inferiority complex. Either they feel themselves intellectually inferior to Newton or physically inferior to Sandow or morally inferior to Christ. 1925 N.Y. Times 20 Sept. ix. 12/2 Those psychic disturbances which Freudians attribute to repressed sex impulse Adler attributes to a deficiency in the mechanism of self-assertion—to the ‘inferiority complex’, which today is on the tongue of thousands who have no idea of what they are talking about. 1925 N.Y. Times 20 Sept. ix. 12/3 Dr. Adler replied: ‘Individual psychology holds that the most important key to the understanding of both personal and mass problems is the so-called sense of inferiority, or inferiority complex, and its consequences.’ 1926 W. McDougall Outl. Abnormal Psychol. xxvii. 433 The inferiority complex is an important factor in some neurotics. 1927 R. H. Thouless Control of Mind 184 The man who finds himself timid and lacking in self-confidence..suffers from what the psycho-analysts call an ‘inferiority complex’. 1931 I. Malcolm Vacant Thrones 122 At bottom he [sc. Lord Curzon] was a reserved man, with an ‘inferiority complex’. 1933 W. J. H. Sprott tr. S. Freud New Introd. Lect. Psycho-anal. 88 A writer who brings in the expression ‘inferiority-complex’ thinks he has satisfied all the demands of psycho-analysis... As a matter of fact the phrase ‘inferiority-complex’ is hardly ever used in psycho-analysis. 1934 H. C. Warren Dict. Psychol. 137/2 Inferiority feeling. 1937 C. Day Lewis Starting Point i. ii. 32 I'd not be sure that I wasn't doing it from false motives—from envy..or inferiority-feeling. 1947 N. L. Munn Psychol. xi. 224/2 Alfred Adler..popularized the terms ‘inferiority and superiority complex’ which are regarded as outcomes of, respectively, unsuccessful and successful exploitation of the ‘will to power’. 1954 L. Carmichael Man. Child Psychol. (ed. 2) xviii. 1118/2 Such a child..will develop an inferiority complex and will soon slow down in his attempts to cope with his environment. 1961 J. A. C. Brown Freud & Post-Freudians iii. 39 In order to compensate for inferiority feelings, each child develops..his own particular strategy. 1974 Daily Tel. 9 Mar. 15/3 Mrs Thompson seemed to have an inferiority complex. Strangers were made to feel unwelcome. < as lemmas |
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