↑ Adler, Alfred (1917). The Neurotic Constitution: Outlines of a Comparative Individualistic Psychology and Psychotherapy. Bernard Glueck and John E. Lind biên dịch. New York: Moffat, Yard & Co. tr. xvii. ... so the traits of character, especially the neurotic ones, serve as a psychic means and form of expression for the purpose of entering into an account with life, for the purpose of assuming an attitude, of gaining a fixed point in the vicissitudes of life, for the purpose of reaching that security-giving goal, the feeling of superiority.
↑ Adler 1917, p. 327 "Usually one sees deviations and circuitous paths in following which the sadistic trait seems wholly or in part lost. In this way the neurotic succeeds in gaining superiority over the weak, or he operates on this new line so skillfully as to manage to set up an aggression which enables him to dominate and torture others.".Lỗi sfn: không có mục tiêu: CITEREFAdler1917 (trợ giúp)
↑ Adler, Alfred (2002). Stein, Henry T. (biên tập). Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler. Cees Koen and Gerald Liebenau biên dịch. Bellingham, Washington: Alfred Adler Institute. tr. 78.
