Martins Case - Group 2 [PDF]

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GROUP 2 THEOPER



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1. WHAT EVIDENCE IS THERE THAT MARTIN HAD FEELINGS OF INFERIORITY?



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Martin had the feelings of inferiority by his humble beginnings because he was embarrassed by his ethnic background, his parent’s lack of education and his lack of material goods. He also did not want to recall what kind of childhood memories he has. All things were mentioned are the reasons why he had the feeling inferiority.



2. ACCORDING TO ADLER’S THEORY, HOW DID FEELINGS OF INFERIORITY INFLUENCE MARTIN’S BEHAVIOR? WHAT INFLUENCE DID THESE BELIEFS OF INFERIORITY HAVE ON HIS STRIVING FOR SUPERIORITY?



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According to Adler’s theory, being inferior can influence you or your behavior in different ways, in Martin’s case, the feeling of inferiority caused him to strive more for superiority. Martin was influenced by it that made him ashamed of his family and his life back then and determined to escape from this kind of life. To compensate for the inferiority he experienced in his youth, his mother's resentment towards him, and his father’s pride that caused them hunger and suffering, Martin was driven to achieve superiority. He was deprived of a lot of things especially love from his own parents and this made the huge impact for him to use success, money and fame to fill those needs. He was so resolute to escape inferiority that caused him to lose the essence of his work, and to genuinely cooperate with people to help them.



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3. ACCORDING TO ADLER’S THEORY, WHAT WAS MARTIN’S GOAL? WHAT WAS MARTIN’S UNIQUE STYLE OF LIFE THAT COULD BE USED TO ACHIEVE THIS GOAL? PROVIDE EVIDENCE FOR YOUR ANSWER.



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In Martin’s case, his goal is to rise above his early station in life and he actually did. He became a well known lawyer and achieve a more successful and sophisticated life but before any of those success his style of life before is not the same with what he has right now. His family came from a medium sized city and he began a humble beginning in his early age. His father is a carpenter while his mother is staying in their house with his siblings. His striving force in wanting to be successful is from the way he was treated before. His mother is from a middle class unlike his father. His mother got pregnant which is him at that time and that is also the reason why his mother and father got married. Not because they want to but because that is what his grandparents want. His mother resent him because of that. He never felt the love and care from his mother. He never felt proud of his humble beginnings and that is also the reason why he really tried his best to be successful.



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4. DOES MARTIN HAVE A HIGH OR A LOW LEVEL OF SOCIAL INTEREST? WHAT DOES THIS IMPLY ABOUT HIS PERSONALITY AND ADJUSTMENT? WHAT IS THE CAUSE OF THIS LEVEL OF SOCIAL INTEREST?



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Due to the sufferings Martin had, he had lost interest in people. He grew up with little to no friends and had such unyielding determination to rise from their family’s adversity. He has low level of social interest and this influenced his actions and his very personality as he grew older. Martin never even participated in school activities and grew up to be distant or with lack of female companionship. His mindset of having wealth and stable life was firm and unwavering. His social interest even declined when he had his job in a well-known law firm only to quit after being dissatisfied with the politics of this firm. He did not even bother making adjustments, instead he started his own firm. He even neglected offers of being director from other organization and other volunteer works for the community. 5. WHAT DID ADLER SAY ABOUT BIRTH ORDER THAT WOULD APPLY TO MARTIN’S LIFE?



According to Adler the first born children are likely to have intensified feelings of power and superiority and over protective techniques but it was not present in Martin’s case because sometimes his basic physical need were not met. Instead of being the center of attraction in the family, Martin often felt alone and commented at one point that neither of his parents loved him. Being the oldest child, he developed the self centered style of life and luckily he adopt this kind of life because as a well known Criminal Lawyer he left to start a new firm of his own.



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1. HOW COULD HORNEY’S CONCEPT OF BASIC ANXIETY EXPLAIN MARTIN’S EXAGGERATED INDEPENDENCE? WHAT MECHANISMS ARE USED BY MARTIN TO HELP HIM DEAL WITH BASIC ANXIETY? HOW DOES ADLER’S CONCEPT OF SOCIAL INTEREST COMPARE WITH HORNEY’S TREND OF MOVING AWAY FROM PEOPLE?



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Martin's hatred towards his parents was repressed back when he was just a child, and enventually turned into a motivation to work hard himself to get himself high that what his parents had when they were young, his independence back then was a culture to him because he was never used in his parents being there for him, he didnt asked anybody for help. Martins neglected style of life was brought up until he was working he had nobody when he was working hard for himself the regression he had on his childhood development was traumatic experience for him, despite all of the hatred he got from his mother of being the first born that he nevrer wished he detached himself from people especially from his family he moved himself aways from them, he had self sufficiency and independence because at such a young age they were exposed to a hard life and he never wanted that for himself so he worked hard for it.



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2. HOW DO ADLER’S SAFEGUARDING TENDENCIES COMPARE WITH HORNEY’S NEUROTIC TRENDS? EXPLAIN MARTIN’S LACK OF RELATIONSHIPS USING THESE TWO CONCEPTS.



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In Adlers’s safeguarding tendencies, it said there that it is a survival mechanism wherein an individual use it to protect themselves from others criticism. In the given case of martin he was not able to enjoy his childhood. He was not able to feel loved by her mother. As he grew older he focused on his goals and how he would get out of his family’s humble background. In this Martin is keeping his real self and what he shows to others is what will pleas them. In connection to Horney’s neurotic trends, since martin was not able to experience his needs in his childhood he developed basic hostility towards his parents which turned to basic anxiety wherein he felt isolation in the world. In this case it became hard for martin to build relationship towards others.



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3. HOW DOES ADLER’S SUPERIORITY COMPLEX COMPARE WITH HORNEY’S CONCEPT OF IDEALIZED SELF? Alder’s superiority complex and Horney’s concept of idealized self have points of comparison by which differs each theory from one another. Alder’s superiority complex is a behavior that suggest that self is greater than the other. In Adler’s theory, self is considered superior to cover inferiority. However, in Horney’s concept of idealized self, it is the idea of oneself of what kind of person the self visualized. Going along with Adler’s theory, it opposed inferiorities with missions to overlap levels of other people, while in the theory of Horney, it is more on the imagination of oneself and making it a motivation to improve the self in many aspects.



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4. ACCORDING TO BOWLBY AND AINSWORTH, WHAT TYPE OF ATTACHMENT STYLE DOES MARTIN DISPLAY? EXPLAIN. WHAT WOULD BE THE SOURCE OF THIS TYPE OF ATTACHMENT STYLE?



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According to Bowlby and Ainsworth the type of attachment style that Martin does is the Dismissive-Avoidant or Anxious-Avoidant Attachment people with this attachment style generally keep their distance from others. They may feel that they don’t need human connection to survive the possible source of this is because at the early age both of his parent does not give him affection or show him some love and it leads to this he became an independent person, and thrive to life because at young age he already saw what life is that is why Martin determined to have a successful life and insist on maintaining his independence and isolation from others because he saw his father that does not want help from other people because of pride that he had. These individuals are often able to shut down emotionally when a potentially hurtful scenario arises, such as a voluntary work.