When, due to a variety of possible influences, a child is not permitted to grow according to his own needs and possibilities, he may develop “a profound insecurity and vague apprehensiveness, for which I use the term basic anxiety. It is his feeling of being isolated and helpless in a world conceived as potentially hostile.” Living in a competitive society, such a child will usually develop an urgent need to rise above others. His idealized image of himself is transformed into an idealized self, which becomes more real to him than his real self, resulting in “the search for glory.” The other
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