gemeinschaftsgefuhl
See also: Gemeinschaftsgefühl
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From German Gemeinschaftsgefühl, from Gemeinschaft (“community, neighborship”) + Gefühl (“feeling”).
Noun
[edit]gemeinschaftsgefuhl (uncountable)
- (literally) "Community feeling" or "social interest"; used by Adlerian psychologists to describe the state of social connectedness and interest in the well-being of others that characterizes psychological health.
- 1963, Ernest Adolf Spiegel, editor, Progress in Neurology and Psychiatry: Volume 18[1], Digitized edition (Psychiatry), Grune & Stratton, published 2007, page 550:
- Lazarsfeld postulated that the "neurotic" is convinced that he cannot compete with others and this leads to fear and avoidance of gemeinschaftgefuhl[sic] …