CHAPTER 6 (Horney) Flashcards
Childhood experiences, especially early social and cultural conditions, significantly shape personality
Psychoanalytic Social Theory
_________ is the repressed hostility towards parents, contributing to a sense of isolation and helplessness in a potentially hostile world.
Basic hostility
Results from repressed hostility towards parents and manifests in various forms of fear and apprehension.
Basic Anxiety
What are the four Protective Mechanisms against Anxiety?
- Affection
- Submission
- Power
- Withdrawal
Seeking love through self-effacing compliance or material goods.
Affection
Submitting to others or institutions in pursuit of affection.
Submission
Using dominance, humiliation, or possession as defenses against hostility.
Power
Becoming emotionally detached or independent from others to avoid hurt.
Withdrawal
While everyone employs protective mechanisms against rejection, hostility, and competitiveness, _______ compulsively repeat the same strategies unproductively.
Neurotics
It represents strategies to combat basic anxiety?
Neurotic Needs
Neurotic Needs:
Seeking approval and avoiding conflict, often at the expense of self-assertion.
Need for Affection and Approval
Neurotic Needs:
Lacking self-confidence, seeking attachment to a powerful figure to avoid loneliness.
Need for a Powerful Partner
Neurotic Needs:
Striving to remain inconspicuous and avoid demanding too much from others.
Need to Restrict Life within Narrow Borders
Neurotic Needs:
Desiring control over others to avoid feelings of weakness or inferiority.
Need for Power
Neurotic Needs:
Evaluating others in terms of utility while fearing exploitation oneself.
Need to Exploit Others
Neurotic Needs:
Seeking attention and importance to alleviate feelings of insignificance.
Need for Social Recognition
Neurotic Needs:
Craving admiration for oneself rather than possessions.
Need for Personal Admiration
Neurotic Needs:
Striving to be the best to confirm superiority over others.
Need for Ambition and Achievement
Neurotic Needs:
Seeking independence to prove self-reliance and avoid dependence on others.
Need for Self-Sufficiency
Neurotic Needs:
Pursuing perfection to validate self-esteem and superiority while hiding weaknesses.
Need for Perfection
What are the three Neurotic Trends?
- Moving Toward People
- Moving Against People
- Moving Away from People
- Neurotics adopt this trend to protect against feelings of helplessness.
- Strategies include seeking affection, approval, and dependence on a powerful figure.
Moving Toward People
- Neurotics assume hostility in others and respond aggressively for self-protection.
- Strategies involve seeking power, exploiting others, and striving for recognition.
Moving Against People
- Neurotics adopt a detached stance to alleviate feelings of isolation.
- Strategies include seeking privacy, independence, and self-sufficiency to maintain emotional distance.
Moving Away from People
In response to early negative influences and feelings of isolation, individuals construct an _________ —a glorified version of themselves.
Idealized Self-Image
What are the three Aspects of the Idealized Image?
- Neurotic Search for Glory
- Neurotic Claims
- Neurotic Pride
This drive toward actualizing the ideal self encompasses the need for perfection, neurotic ambition, and a drive toward vindictive triumph.
Neurotic Search for Glory
Neurotics construct a fantasy world where they are entitled to special treatment, rooted in their idealized self-view.
Neurotic Claims
Neurotics proclaim their imagined greatness loudly, seeking validation and protection for their glorified self-view.
Neurotic Pride
What are the Six significant manifestations of Self-Hatred?
- Relentless Demands on the Self:
- Merciless Self-Accusation:
- Self-Contempt:
- Self-Frustration:
- Self-Torment:
- Self-Destructive Actions and Impulses:
Manifestations of Self-Hatred:
- Neurotics impose unyielding standards of perfection on themselves, persisting even after achieving success, driven by the belief that they should be flawless.
Relentless Demands on the Self
Manifestations of Self-Hatred:
- Neurotics engage in constant self-criticism, viewing themselves as frauds and attributing exaggerated responsibility to themselves, ranging from minor faults to grandiose failures.
Merciless Self-Accusation
Manifestations of Self-Hatred:
- Individuals belittle, disparage, and ridicule themselves, undermining their confidence and inhibiting their pursuit of improvement or achievement due to a deep-seated sense of unworthiness.
Self-Contempt
Manifestations of Self-Hatred:
- Distinguished from healthy self-discipline, it involves sabotaging one’s own enjoyment and success, driven by self-hatred and a desire to uphold an inflated self-image.
Self-Frustration
Manifestations of Self-Hatred:
- Individuals intentionally inflict harm or suffering on themselves, deriving masochistic satisfaction from agonizing over decisions, exaggerating physical pain, engaging in self-harm, or inviting abuse.
Self-Torment
Manifestations of Self-Hatred:
- Manifested physically or psychologically, consciously or unconsciously, these actions range from overeating and substance abuse to reckless behavior and suicide attempts, reflecting a profound internal struggle and self-annihilation.
Self-Destructive Actions and Impulses
- Horney emphasized that psychic differences between men and women are shaped by societal expectations.
- Men’s dominance and women’s envy or degradation result from neurotic competitiveness in society.
Feminine Psychology
