How to be happy though human / by W. Béran Wolfe.
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CHAPTER FOUR Of Craftsmanship Compensation and Overcompensation Four Methods of Compensation—Compensation as a Function of the Total Personality—Social Channels of Compensation— How to Compensate for Being Pampered—“ Plus Gestures ” and the Superiority Complex—Valid Uses of “ Plus Gestures ”—Fundamental Techniques of Compensation— The need for Creative Compensations—Hobbies as Old Age Insurance—Neuroses as False Compensations—Two Patterns of Life—The Substitution of Techniques for Goals—Money As a Fiction of Power—Recapitulation. Of Tools CHAPTER FIVE Character and Personality The Dynamic Concept of Character—Introversion and Extra- version—“ Good ” and “ Bad ” Characters—The “ Ideal ” Character—The Evolution of a Personality—The Evolution of a Neurotic Character—How to Analyse a Character. CHAPTER SIX More About Tools Conflict and Emotion Vanity and Egoism—Ambition : Its use and Misuse—The Meaning of Conflict and Doubt—Some Psychoanalytic Bogeys—The Dynamics of Evasion—Make-believe Superiorities—The Misuse of Mind—Fundamental Attitudes of the Good Life—The Profession of Worry—The Purpose of Worry—Analysis of Jealousy—The Relation of Jealousy to Love. CHAPTER SEVEN Of Training Dreams, Humour, and Philosophy Psychic Selectivity and Experience—How We “ Make ” Our Experiences—Procrustes and the Scheme of Apperception— The Training Formula—The Function of Memory—The Importance of Childhood Memories—About Dreams—Of Wit and Humour—The Psycho-dynamics of a Joke—The Value of Sport—Of Basic Philosophies—Mysticism, Fatalism, and Hedonism. PAGE 77 109 134 i65