The science of living / by Alfred Adler.

  • Alfred Adler
Date:
[1930]
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Credit: The science of living / by Alfred Adler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    emotional life. We can conclude that the feel¬ ings always agree with the individual’s viewpoint of his task: they strengthen the individual in his bent for activity. We always do that which we would do even without the feelings, and the feelings are simply an accompaniment to our acts. We can see this fact quite clearly in dreams, the discovery of whose purpose was perhaps one of the latest achievements of Individual Psy¬ chology. Every dream has of course a purpose, although this was never clearly understood until now. The purpose of a dream—expressed in general and not specific terms—is to create a certain movement of feeling or emotion, which movement of emotion in turn furthers the move¬ ment of the dream. It is an interesting commen¬ tary on the old idea that a dream is always a deception. We dream in the way that we would like to behave. Dreams are an emotional re¬ hearsal of plans and attitudes for waking behavior—a rehearsal, however, in which the actual piay may never come off. In this sense dreams are deceptive—the emotional imagination gives us the thrill of action without the action.
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