Translator’s Introduction
Author’s Preface
Foreword to the Catholic Education Press Edition by Jude P. Dougherty
Contents
Introduction
Chapter I. The Nature of Character and the Methods of Characterology
1. Preliminary Observations
2. The Primitive Urge to Self-Assertion
3. The Nature of Impulse
4. The Will to Power
5. The Psychic Life of Early Childhood
6. The Feeling of Inferiority Determined by Physique
7. Compensation
8. Inferiority-Experiences Conditioned by Exogenous Factors
9. Severity, Authority, Punishment and “Spoiling”
10. The Will to Community
11. Fantasy and the Necessity for Compensation
12. Educating the Will to Community
1. The Reactive Origin of Character-Traits
2. Fear in Childhood
3. Lying, Wilfulness, Obstinacy
4. Specially Situated Children
5. Depreciation
1. Preliminary Remarks
2. The Sources of Ideals
3. The Significance of the Ideal
4. Ambition
5. True and False Ideals
6. Greatness and Heroism
7. Humility
8. An Objection
9. Conscience
10. Refutation of the Objection
11. The Character-Ideal
1. Method
2. Woman’s Environment
3. Woman’s Disposition
4. Woman’s Lack of Courage and Its Effects
5. Motherhood
6. The Bringing-Up of Boys and Girls
1. Youth and the Social Environment
2. Puberty and Adolescence
3. School Influences
4. The Change of Objective Outlook at Adolescence
5. The Difficulties Experienced in Adolescence
6. The Forces That Shape Character
7. Sexuality
1. The Common Basis
2. “Difficult” Children
3. Neurosis
4. Artificiality as a Characteristic of Neurosis
5. The Egocentricity of Neurosis
6. Neurotic Aims and Neurotic Character-Traits
1. The Possibility of Self-Knowledge
2. Our Relation to Our Fellow-Men
3. The Guide
4. Difficulties in the Way of Self-Perfection
5. Relation to the Community
6. Love of One’s Neighbour
7. Physician and Spiritual Director
Conclusion