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Psychology

Offsetting a felt inferiority

In Alfred Adler's individual psychology, compensation is the process by which a person offsets a real or felt shortcoming (an 'inferiority') by developing effort or ability, whether in the same area or another; pushed to excess it becomes overcompensation. It is one of the organising ideas of Adler's account of personality and striving. The selections collected in The individual psychology of Alfred Adler set out the concept. This is a construct about mind and motivation, sharing only the word with a chronometer's temperature compensation or a control engineer's compensator.[1]

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The striving that offsets a felt inferiority
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Inferred clinically from a person's compensatory and overcompensatory behaviour

Translation studies

making up for a loss of meaning or effect at one point of a text by adding it at another.

In translation studies, compensation refers to making up for a loss of meaning or effect at one point of a text by adding it at another. This meaning comes from Harvey (1995) in The Translator.[2]

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References

  1. Adler, A. (1964). The individual psychology of Alfred Adler (H. L. Ansbacher & R. R. Ansbacher, Eds.). Harper & Row. ISBN 9780061311543
  2. Harvey, K. (1995). A Descriptive Framework for Compensation. The Translator, 1(1), 65-86. https://doi.org/10.1080/13556509.1995.10798950

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