How does it arise and take root in us? And how do we overcome and conquer it?? An absorbing scientific study which every reader, man and woman, should read and ponder...

The "feeling of inferiority" is counted among the most important subjects of "psychology" and the nearest of them to our daily life.. So said Alfred Adler, a psychologist who spent his life treating complicated.. obscure problems..

A great number of human beings suffer because of the "feeling of inferiority," and in every soul there is some complex; it may carry a person to extremes and paralyze his movement; or it may stop at a point that no one notices...

Who among us has not pictured himself more successful than he really is?.. And who has not wished he were surpassingly intelligent, handsome of face, strong of build, and rich, all at once?..

The inferiority complex begins with our comparing ourselves to those who surpass us; and though its results appear in adulthood, its roots go back to childhood, for the tender-limbed child depends wholly upon his parents' arms and is very often compelled to submit to things imposed upon him by force... By nature the child moves forward to prove his existence and find a place for himself upon this globe.. but many things sometimes stand in his way and obstruct the course of his life..

Here is Jamil... a shy young man who stammers in his speech, hesitant in his actions, forever fearing a fall.. His father was a motorcar driver for a wealthy family, and because he was a man of good conduct, they sent Jamil with their children to the same school. Jamil's family were exceedingly pleased at this, and so was the boy — for he is intelligent, and up to the level of his class.. But the reality became plain after a while: Jamil could not carry on his studies in this milieu; his companions discovered the weakness of his material and social condition and knew that he could not pay the costs of the parties and occasions they held.. At first he became grasping and unruly, wishing he might