A vivid clarification of the dynamic connection between the feeling of
inferiority and the compensatory fictional final goal may be found
in "The Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler, Volume 1, The
Neurotic Character." See
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/hstein/nc-3.htm.

The ficitonal final goal is an unconscious image of personal security,
superiority, and completion. As long as it remains unconsicous, it
organizes and drives the individual's mental, emotional, and behavioral
life. In Classical Adlerian depth psychotherapy, this unconsicous goal
is gradually made conscious, offering the client and opportunity to
change direction.


--- In classicaladlerianpsychology@yahoogroups.com, "zurabp"
<zurabp@...> wrote:
>
> Some years ago I have read in the book of Gorge Simenon "Doubts of
> Megre" (Georges Simenon "Les Scrupules De Maigret') about
> Neurosis: "Neuroses by Adler began with threatening sensations of
> inferiority and uncertainty. Defensive reaction against sensations of
> disease drives neurotic to identify himself with fictive ideal
> structure. It was in the former Soviet Union and though I tried hard
> and even read the book of J. A. C. Brown " Freud and Post Freudians"
I
> couldn't find anything on this matter. I'm not sure in Russian
> translation of the novel, but what does mean "identification with
> fictive structure is fully unclear for me. Can you tell anything
about
> this matter or may I read anywhere?
>