Rank & Adler?

In "Denial of Death" Becker propomtes Otto Rank's idea that the truth of our insignificance overwhelms us as youths (and adults I guess). Thus the felt minus begins. Becker then trivializes Adler in a few sentences. It is helpful to me, though, to think of the striving as a story the individual makes up about what it means to "be" someone or overcome an also made up "weakness." When I listen I'm litening for the "validation" story. I'm wondering if anyone else has put an existential twist to the "striving" idea? It seems Adler clearly did not as I have never seen him quoted concerning Heidegger or other existentialists. Thus the overcoming or striving concept seems to be taken as a given - its source or cause not explored so there are many discussions like the above. What is it? What's it realy mean, etc.

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Existentialism, Adler, and Mueller, by Henry Stein, 4/12/96 Who are Closer to Adler's Theory?, by Carmen Knowles, 4/21/96 Sources for Classical Adlerian Theory, by Henry Stein, 4/21/96 Co-operation, by t cummings, 5/14/96 Relevant Subject, by Carmen Knowles, 8/7/96 Inferiority and Original Sin, by Ed Riemann MSW, 10/13/96 Why Employers Terrorize Their Employees, . . . are they suffering from inferiority and their parents, by Joey Putman, 10/19/96 Re:Why Employers Terrorize Their Employees, . . . are they suffering from inferiority and their parents, by vaida, 11/22/01 Alfred Adler: On Time-Management and Business Practices, by Carroll R. Thomas, 11/25/01 Inferiority & Original Sin, by Ed Riemann, 1/20/97 Re: Inferiority and Original Sin, by Izaac Quade, 12/25/99 Social Comparison, by Gilbert Levin, 4/13/96 Depreciation, Idealization, & Solicitude, by Henry Stein, 4/13/96 Adler and Social Comparison, by Gil Levin, 4/13/96

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