Alfred Adler, answered from the texts and cited to the page.
Individual psychology means, in the root of the word, the psychology of the undivided. Freud cut the person into pieces — the id that wants, the ego that manages, the superego that forbids — and made the mind a house at war with itself, its true motives hidden in a repressed unconscious that the conscious self does not know and cannot own.
I see no such house divided. The person is one, a single self-consistent whole whose every expression — the symptom no less than the deliberate act — serves one guiding goal and belongs to one style of life. What Freud called repression and the return of the repressed I read differently: the neurotic's hesitations, his symptoms, his "I can't," are not the eruption of something split off and unknown, but "safeguarding tendencies" — purposive arrangements, obscure to the person only because he does not wish to see them, by which he protects his self-esteem while declining the tasks of life.
The unconscious, for me, is not a sealed cellar of forbidden drives but the "not-understood," the part of one's own single purpose one has an interest in not grasping. Understand the goal, and the division disappears: there was never a house at war, only one person moving, consistently, toward one end.123
Our science demands a markedly individualizing procedure and is consequently not much given to generalizations. For general guidance I would like to propound the following rule: as soon as the goal of a psychic movement or its life-plan has been recognized, then we are to assume that all the movements of tts constituent parts will coincide with both the goal and the life-plan.The Practice and Theory of Individual Psychology, pp. 6–7
What in the case of the child the family naturally perform, that the family, physician and the rest of the environment together do for the neurotic.The Practice and Theory of Individual Psychology, pp. 59–60
Ideal types are disappearing both from literature and practice. Let me also mention here the ''unity of neurosis" upon which I have laid emphasis. In general it may be said that we are approaching a point of view to which individual psychology has made important contributions.The Practice and Theory of Individual Psychology, pp. 235–236
The structural heart of Adler's break with Freud and the point on which the two psychologies are most directly opposed: the indivisible, purposive whole against the partitioned psyche and the dynamic unconscious of repression. Adler's holism aligns him with the organismic and Gestalt-influenced psychologies of the whole person and with much later humanistic psychology; his account of the unconscious as the "not-understood" rather than the repressed is one of the clearest alternatives to the Freudian model. The standing criticism is the mirror of Adler's charge against Freud: that in refusing the divided psyche and the dynamic unconscious Adler underweighted the reality of inner conflict and the genuine opacity of the mind to itself, trading depth for clarity.