These are unsatisfactory translations of
Adler's
term, Gemeinschaftsgefuehl. This term refers to the individual's
awareness of belonging in the human community and the extent of his or her
sense of being a fellow being. Social
interest is a capacity inherent in all human beings which must be developed and
trained, analogous, in this way, to the capacity for language and speech. In the Adlerian schema, social interest can
be thought of as an index to successful adaptation: The more developed the social interest, the more diminished the
individual's feelings of inferiority, alienation, and isolation.*
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*Excerpted with permission from Griffith, Jane & Powers, Robert L. An Adlerian Lexicon - Fifty-Nine Terms Associated With the Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler
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