Hans Vaihinger's The Psychology of the 'As If' helped to inspire his idea that people are driven by an ideal goal called fictional finalism.
Hans Vaihinger's The Psychology of the 'As If' helped to inspire his idea that people are driven by an ideal goal called fictional finalism. His typology described four 'Styles of Life', the getting, avoiding, ruling, and socially useful types.  His student Rudolf Dreikurs helped turn his ideas into a practical system, while the influence of Jan Smuts led him to develop a holistic theory of psychology.  He described the effects of birth order on personality in his Understanding Human Nature, while his work The Neurotic Constitution was written shortly after breaking with Freud.  Developer of individual psychology, FTP, name this Austrian psychologist who developed the idea of the inferiority complex.
Hans Vaihinger's The Psychology of the 'As If' helped to inspire his idea that people are driven by an ideal goal called fictional finalism.
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