caa a22 4500 37890678X CHVBK 20180305123531.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20040304xx s 000 0 ger 10.1515/fabl.2004.008 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/fabl.2004.008 Rieken Bernd Die Individualpsychologie Alfred Adlers und ihre Bedeutung für die Erzählforschung [Elektronische Daten] [Bernd Rieken] Although Adlers Individual Psychology is one of the three schools of depth psychology, it plays practically no role as far as psychological interpretations of folk narratives are concerned. Instead, interpreters exclusively deal with psychoanalysis and analytical psychology. Disregarding Adlers theory, however, is objectively not justified. Its possibilities of application but also its limits shall therefore be pointed out. On the one hand, Individual Psychology has gained entry to popular forms of the humanistic discourse, yet it is neither mentioned nor recognised as such. On the other hand, the study of folklore and Individual Psychology share a common goal in their sociocultural orientation. And thirdly, the basic assumptions of Individual Psychology offer new insights capable of stimulating folk narrative research. These are, primarily, the interdependence between feelings of inferiority and the drive for power (or striving for superiority), the rediscovery of the final cause (causa finalis), neglected in modern scientific tradition, and the concept of fictionalism, an early constructivist theory developed by Hans Vaihinger in his Philosophy of As If. Copyright © 2004 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG Fabula Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG 45/1-2(2004-03-04), 1-32 0014-6242 45:1-2<1 2004 45 fabl https://doi.org/10.1515/fabl.2004.008 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/fabl.2004.008 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Rieken Bernd NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Fabula Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG 45/1-2(2004-03-04), 1-32 0014-6242 45:1-2<1 2004 45 fabl CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence SWISSBIB 190106123 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter