Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.

Hillsdale NJ: Analytic Press. The desires of the self ideal were countered by social and ethical demands. A transient partner of your own sex is a better known road and requires less courage than a permanent contact with an "unknown" sex.

Adler was the first to emphasize the importance of the social element in the re-adjustment process of the individual and who carried psychiatry into the community. His emphasis on the importance of feelings of inferiority - the inferiority complex - is recognized as isolating an element which plays a key role in personality development. Adler (February 7 1870 – May 28 1937) was an Austrian medical doctor psychotherapist and founder of the school of individual psychology.