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inferiority complex

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inferiority complex

Acute sense of personal inferiority, often resulting in either timidity or (through overcompensation) exaggerated aggressiveness. Though once a standard psychological concept, particularly among followers of Alfred Adler, it has lost much of its usefulness through imprecise popular misuse.


inferiority complex
Psychiatry a disorder arising from the conflict between the desire to be noticed and the fear of being humiliated, characterized by aggressiveness or withdrawal into oneself

inferiority complex [in‚fir·ē′är·əd·ē ′käm‚pleks]
(psychology)
Repressed unconsious fears and feelings of physical or social inadequacy or both, which may result in excessive anxiety, inability to function, or actual failure.


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It didn't do a whole hell of a lot for my inferiority complex, but I guess if they'd shown up and we'd gone skating and I was as good as them then our company would be in a shitload of trouble.
That way, when someone they don't know attacks them, they won't get an inferiority complex," the Santa Clarita mother said.
I suspect that Germany's great willingness to import foreign architects is due to a cultural and political inferiority complex.
 
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