antithetical mode of apperception

In Individual Psychology, this term is usually associated with the Basic Mistakes or Interfering Ideas of the Life-Style, which often express polarities. Adler used the phrase, antithetical mode of apperception, to identify the "sharply schematizing, strongly abstracting mode of apperception" of the neurotic, which, he said, is "something like the debit and credit sides of bookkeeping, [admitting] no degrees in between (Adler p. 248).