This thinker identified "moving backwards," "standing still," "hesitation," and "constructing obstacles" as four modes of creating "distance" with personal problems.
This thinker identified "moving backwards," "standing still," "hesitation," and "constructing obstacles" as four modes of creating "distance" with personal problems. This thinker's notions of the "guiding fiction" and "guiding principle" that create the idealized masculine ego were influenced by correspondence with Hans Vaihinger. This thinker's school of therapy, which built on Nietzsche's notion of "will-to-power," was based on understanding tenets of character development outlined in (*) Vienna lectures that comprise his Understanding Human Nature. This psychologist, who believed that birth order influences personality, argued that neurotic individuals pursue superiority partly because of a constant feeling of inadequacy. For 10 points, name this psychologist who coined the term "inferiority complex." 
This thinker identified "moving backwards," "standing still," "hesitation," and "constructing obstacles" as four modes of creating "distance" with personal problems.
Alfred Adler 