Despite recent evidence to the contrary:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6501633.stm
many laypeople still say that short men compensate for their
inferiority of being short with being aggressive.
People appear to borrow the thought of inferiority complex and apply
it to short men from the works of Adler. I've read some, though not
all, of Adler's books yet I have not found anything specifically
saying the reason Napoleon, or any short man for that matter, was
aggressive is that they feel too inferior for being short.
I have read that some individuals will interpret their inferior
organs, illness, or ugliness as significant enough to create an
abnormal inferiority complex should they not develop social interest.
I have also read a reason Adler brings up Napoleon is to demonstrate
how an individual may stray from social interest and go on to commit
crimes against humanity.
I wanted to hear from the experts here, once and for all, if Adler
did indeed say Napoleon's lack of social interest was due to his being
short. If not, is it plausible to say that certain individual short
men see their height as a physical deficit and will, indeed,
compensate for the resultant feeling of inferiority with aggression?
Does there have to be other environmental factors or even biological
ones present for this to take place?