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

extreme pride and saintly humility, belligerent argumen¬ tativeness, the “ will-to-be-right ”, and all the complex aspects of human vanity. The third group of symptoms which betray the presence of an inferiority complex are those which deal with the work-a-day world. People who believe that work is a curse, and those others who do not work at all, show that they have not understood the fundamental logic of human life. The enslavement of other human beings either legally or illegally, whether in the sweatshop and the kitchen as it is practised in modern civilization, or in peonage and serfdom as practised in some countries, is an instance of inadequate social insight. There are some occupations which are almost frankly anti-social, such as the profession of soldiering. It seems hardly possible that anyone with a great love for humanity could be interested in learning the art of bayoneting a fellow human being. The prostitute and the pimp, the procurer, the pedlar of narcotics, and others of their kind, clearly demonstrate their lack of social feeling in their pro¬ fessions. Men and women who set impossible conditions before they will work showr their inferiority complex. Others who are constantly changing their jobs say, in the language of psychology, that they do not want to work at all. Sex and the Inferiority Complex A fourth set of symptoms which betray the existence of the inferiority complex are those referable to the world of love and sex. The great frequency with which the inferiority complex manifests its existence in this sphere of human relations is due both to the exaggerated interest in sexual activity which is characteristic of our present-day civilization, and to the more important fact that the sexual problem is the one human problem which the individual may leave unsolved without bringing about his own death or complete isolation. The solution of the sexual problem demands a maximum of social