How to be happy though human / by W. Béran Wolfe.

Inferiority—Continued cause of undesirable character traits, 228 overcome by a process of conscious training and growth, 165 social compensations, 85 social, economic and racial deter¬ minants, 61-2 Inferiority complex, 24-46 as a cause of human unhappiness, 79 as evidenced in sex, 41-3, 58-61 as expression of isolation from society, 32 as false compensation, 99 as result of the emotional attitudes of parents and teachers, 64-8 basis of a superiority complex, 90 causes of, 47-54, 74-6 family constellation and, 54-8 jealousy an index of, 163-4 manifestations in social life, 40 “ no ” psychology, 38 “ organ jargon,” 38-41 “ plus gestures ” applied to, 92-3 present in neurosis, 44 self-comparison with others an index of, 150 subjective sources of, 72-6 training processes as a means to overcome, 175 symptoms, 35-43 technique of cure, 33-5 universality of, 26 Insanity, subjective nature of, 13 Insomnia, as a neurotic scapegoat, 264 symptom of unhappiness, 123 Intelligence test, fallacy of, 69 Introversion, 113 Isaiah, preachings, 46 Isolation, 220 as a means of compensation, 115 basis of the inferiority complex, 3 3 desirable in sleep, 36 effect on the sense of inferiority, 29 escape from, 38 inevitable consequence of neurosis, 266 laughter impossible in, 187 masturbation practised in, 235 means of social contact, 342 tragedy of, 3 5 Itching, neurotic, 276 Janet, Pierre, 269 Jealousy, an attempt to possess another human being, 163 J ealousy—Continued cases of, 160-3 causes and effects, 159-64 Jenner, Edward, 68 Jews, ovpr-emphasis on the family among, 226-7 John B., case of, 169 John C., case of, 121-4 Johnson, case of, no-12 Joke, compared with dreams and neurosis, 187 means of bolstering the ego, 186 reaction to, 185 Jones, case of, no-12 Keller, Helen, 81 Kindliness, an essential quality of the “ good life ”, 154 Kraepelin, early German psychiatrist, 269 La Fontaine, Jean de, 151, 153 Laisse^i-aller, 265 Laissez-faire, 265 La2iness, a technique of evasion, 231 Left-handedness, compensation, 82 source of fear and the inferiority complex, 49-52 Leisure, wise use of, 356-8 Lesbianism, 175, 242, 318 Life, artistic attitude, 2 as a business, 1 as a fine art, 1-23 buffers against stark realities of nature, 248 discipline of natural law essential to the “ good life ”, 23 false techniques, 257 fundamental attitudes of the “ good life ”, 76, 154, 194 human turnip philosophy, 1, 194 increasing vitalness of modem, 357 inexorable logic of “ risk nothing, gain nothing ”, 222 innate similarities of pattern, 15-16 living the one and only goal of, 28, 152 “ minus ” to “ plus ” pattern forma¬ tion, 18, 20, 22 problem of values, 15 2-3 three-ring circus battlefront, 202-22 understanding necessary to courage, 332 Living Corpse, The, Tolstoy, 290 Love, aberrations of normal, 232-9 at first sight, 322, 325