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Alfred Adler (1870-1937) and Gregory Allport (1897-1967) are both greats in the world of psychology. Both are legends when it comes to theories of personalities and understanding how the human being works, learns, understands and reacts to the world around them. Understanding their theories and what they believed and what led them to think that way helps us today understand where we have been in this field and where we today. Comparing them in their beliefs and their standards helps us to comprehend where they were when they developed their theories while being surrounded by Freudians and Neo-Freudians. Adler referred to his theory as Individual Psychology because he thought that people were unique and that no theory created before his†¦show more content†¦Ã¢â‚¬Å"In both cases (whether the result is a superiority or inferiority complex), ultimately the individual turns inward and more self-focused and self-centered in reaction to the strong sense of inferiority they are feel ing.† (Mckenzie,2017) Adlers theory of the Life Style requires at least four basic propositions. Those propositions are: 1. The objective environment to which man adapts and with which-he interacts is primarily a social environment. 2. The individual is a unit, an irreducible whole. 3. An individual develops a dominant motivation. The directive aspect of motivation is a goal. The dominant direction of the individual is toward this goal. 4. Within the limits of the objective environment, these inner directive processes serve as a subjective environment which provides direction and stimuli for behavior. The concept of a unified personality together with that of inner directedness indicates the main theme and dominant motivating