The superiority complex is one of the ways which a person with an inferiority complex may use as a method of escape from her or his difficulties. When he has reached one level of development, he begins to feel inferior once more and the striving for something better begins again, which is the great driving force of mankind.” A child is motivated by feelings of inferiority to strive for greater things.
The child comes into the world as a helpless little creature surrounded by powerful adults. It is as if a man/woman feared that they were too small and walked on their toes to make themselves taller.” He also wrote ”to be a human being means to feel oneself inferior. It is a compensation for the inferiority complex."Īccording to the psychologist Alfred Adler “Behind everyone who behaves as if he/she were superior to others, we can suspect a feeling of inferiority which calls for very special efforts of concealment. It seems to be a trait of human nature that when individuals - both children and adults - feel weak, they want to solve the problems of life in such a way as to obtain personal superiority without any admixture of social interest. She or he is not in harmony with society. That is why she or he stays on the useless side. "If a person is a show-off it is only because she or he feels inferior, because she or he does not feel strong enough to compete with others on the useful side of life.