AN INFERIORITY COMPLEX

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 240, 11 July 1928, Page 3

AN INFERIORITY COMPLEX

Tn the language of psychology (says a writer In “The Outline”) complexes are associations of ideas in the mind, that is ideas forming groups. A number of mental elements associated together so as to form some more or less loosely knit system are called a complex. When you are told you have an inferiority complex it simply means you are lacking In self-confidence in dealing with people. It is a haunting sense of inferiority—you may, in a measure, have inherited it; more likely it may be due to your early environment and upbringing. You may have been often snubbed, or repressed, or dominated in your youth and education. You have acquired a group of Ideas which In combination have led you to an undervaluation of yourself. There may lie, no ground at all for this undervaluation. It is simply a complex. or latent, dominant sense, or a fictitious mental attitude of inferiority that you have acquired. An Inferiority complex may have arisen from a humiliation of childhood or in later life—and become lifelong. A “religious complex” may begin in some vivid experience or influence in eaxlx life-