Editing Inferiority complex (section)

==Classifications==
Classical [[Adlerian psychology]] makes a distinction between primary and secondary inferiority feelings.{{cn|date=October 2020}}

* A primary inferiority feeling is said to be rooted in the young child's original experience of weakness, helplessness and dependency, where there is also a lack of parental acceptance and affection, or an actual constitutional weakness.<ref name=gregoryzangwill/>  It can then be intensified by comparisons to siblings, romantic partners, and adults.<ref>Kangata, 2017</ref>{{full|date=August 2022}}
* A secondary inferiority feeling relates to an adult's experience of being unable to reach a subconscious, reassuring fictional final goal of subjective security and success to compensate for the inferiority feelings.{{cn|date=October 2020}}  The perceived distance from that reassuring goal would lead to a negative/depressed feeling that could then prompt the recall of the original inferiority feeling; this composite of inferiority feelings, i.e. the original feeling recalled due to the secondary feeling, could be experienced as overwhelming. The reassuring goal invented to relieve the original, primary feeling of inferiority (which actually causes the secondary feeling of inferiority) is the "[[Catch 22 (logic)|catch-22]]" of this dilemma.