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| Writer | Fumitake Koga, Ichiro Kishimi |
| Category | Self Development |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
| Publish Date | 2013 |
| Pages | 265 |
| File Size | 1 MB |
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In life, there are encounters in which a book one happens to pick up one day ends up completely altering one’s landscape the following morning. It was the winter of 1999, and I was a youth in my twenties, when I had the great fortune of encountering such a book at a bookshop in Ikebukuro.
The Courage to Be Disliked PDF – Fumitake Koga, Ichiro Kishimi
This was Ichiro Kishimi’s Adorā Shinrigaku Nyūmon (Introduction to Adlerian Psychology). Here was a form of thought, profound in every way, yet conveyed in simple language, that seemed to overturn our accepted wisdoms at their very roots. A Copernican revolution that denied trauma and converted etiology into teleology.
Having always felt something unconvincing in the discourses of the Freudians and Jungians. I was affected very deeply. Who was this Alfred Adler? How had I never known of his existence before? I purchased every single book by or about Adler that I could get my hands on and became completely engrossed and read them over and over again. But I was struck then by a certain fact.
What I was interested in was not solely Adlerian psychology but rather something that had emerged through the lens of the philosopher, Ichiro Kishimi: It was Kishimi-Adler studies that I was seeking. Grounded in the thought of Socrates and Plato and other ancient Greek philosophers, the Adlerian psychology that Kishimi conveys to us reveals Adler as a thinker, a philosopher, whose work went far beyond the confines of clinical psychology.
The Courage to Be Disliked PDF – Fumitake Koga, Ichiro Kishimi
For instance, the statement “It is only in social contexts that a person becomes an individual” is positively Hegelian; in his laying emphasis on subjective interpretation over objective truth, he echoes Nietzsche’s worldview, and ideas recalling the phenomenology of Husserl and Heidegger are in abundance.
Adlerian psychology, which draws inspiration from these philosophical insights to proclaim “All problems are interpersonal relationship problems,” “People can change and be happy from this moment onward,” and “The problem is not one of ability, but of courage,” was to utterly change the worldview of this rather confused youth.
Nevertheless, there was almost no one around me who had heard of Adlerian psychology. Eventually, it occurred to me that I would like to make a book someday with Kishimi that would be a definitive edition of Adlerian psychology (Kishimi-Adler studies), and I contacted one editor after another and waited impatiently for the opportunity to arise.
The Courage to Be Disliked PDF – Fumitake Koga, Ichiro Kishimi
It was in March 2010 that I was at last able to meet with Kishimi, who lives in Kyoto. More than ten years had passed since my first reading of Introduction to Adlerian Psychology. When Kishimi said to me then, “Socrates’s thought was conveyed by Plato. I would like to be a Plato for Adler,” without a second thought, I answered, “Then, I will be a Plato for you, Mr. Kishimi.”
This is how this book was conceived. One aspect of Adler’s simple and universal ideas is that there are times when he may seem to be stating the obvious. While at others, he is likely to be regarded as espousing utterly unrealizable, idealistic theories. Accordingly, in this book, in hopes of focusing on addressing any doubts that might be harbored by the reader. I have adopted the format of a dialogue between a philosopher and a young man.
Some points make one want to rebel, statements that are difficult to accept, and proposals that one may struggle to grasp. But the ideas of Adler have the power to completely change a person’s life, just like they did for me over a decade ago. Then it is only a question of having the courage to take a step forward.
The Courage to Be Disliked PDF
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