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ShareAn inferiority complex, in the fields of psychology and psychoanalysis, is a feeling that one is inferior to others in some way.
It is often unconscious, and is thought to drive afflicted individuals to overcompensate, resulting either in spectacular achievement or extreme antisocial behaviour.
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