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The Case of Rosie: An Adlerian Response
Author(s) -
Powers Robert L.,
Griffith Jane
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
the career development quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.846
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 2161-0045
pISSN - 0889-4019
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-0045.1993.tb00249.x
Subject(s) - friendship , task (project management) , perspective (graphical) , character (mathematics) , human sexuality , social character , psychology , adlerian , adaptation (eye) , social psychology , sociology , psychoanalysis , engineering , gender studies , computer science , social science , geometry , mathematics , artificial intelligence , neuroscience , systems engineering
This response is based in the perspective of Individual Psychology, especially in addressing Rosie's stated sense of failure in each of the three life tasks identified by Alfred Adler (1964) as confronting all human beings and defining the requirements for successful adaptation. These are (a) the social task of friendship and making one's place in the community; (b) the task of love and sexuality; and (c) the task of work. Each of these is dictated by the social character of human being, and is seen as ineluctable, given the way humankind's successful evolution was secured by the capacity for language, the revering of social‐sexual bonds, and the exchange of goods and services through the division of labor.