Before we leave this inferiority-theme, I would like to mention some further ideas of some importance in this context. Organ inferiority and compensation are two things that belong together. This is a very early (1907!) analysis of the homeostatic principle, as applied to human organism as a whole. Compensation is a principle that helps to keep some kind of balance within the organism (Claude Bernard, "Interior milieu"), and/or between the organism and the environment (cybernetics). It was Cannon who systematicized these ideas in the psychosomatic field. Norbert Wiener and von Bertalanffy presented their ideas of positive and negative feedback, and of adaptive, self-correcting systems somewhat later on. I think that it is fruitful to compare Adler's early ideas with these later theories.