Whether it’s about Greece’s economic woes or the Socceroos winning football’s Asian Cup, journalists love to bandy around the phrase “inferiority complex” as if it’s catch-all statement to imply doubt and uncertainty. But the term has its origins in the work of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung and has been used to describe a set
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