Chapter 6. Horney: Psychoanalytic Social Theory

Question 1

True or False. Horney insisted that social and cultural influences were more important than biological ones.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Children who lack warmth and affection fail to meet ________________ and __________.

Answer 2

their needs for safety and satisfaction

Question 3

Feelings of isolation and helplessness trigger __________.

Answer 3

basic anxiety

Question 4

The inability of people to use different tactics in their relationships with others generates ________.

Answer 4

basic conflict

Question 5

3 neurotic trends:

Answer 5

1. moving towards people
2. moving away from people
3. moving against people

Question 6

True or False. Healthy people solve their basic conflict by using all three neurotic trends.

Answer 6

True

Question 7

True or False. Neurotics compulsively adopt all three neurotic trends.

Answer 7

False. Neurotics compulsively adopt ONLY ONE of these trends.

Question 8

2 major intrapsychic conflicts:

Answer 8

idealized self-image and self-hatred

Question 9

The __________ results in neurotics’ attempts to build a godlike picture of themselves.

Answer 9

idealized self-image

Question 10

_______ is the tendency for neurotics to hate and despise their real self.

Answer 10

Self-hatred

Question 11

True or False. Any psychological differences between men and women are due to cultural and social expectations and not to biology.

Answer 11

True

Question 12

What is the goal of Horneyian psychotherapy?

Answer 12

to bring about growth toward actualization of the real self

Question 13

A strategy that does not always lead to authentic love.

Answer 13

affection

Question 14

Neurotics who submit to another person often do so in order to gain affection. What protective device is this?

Answer 14

submissiveness

Question 15

A defense against the real or imagined hostility of others and takes the form of a tendency to dominate others.

Answer 15

power

Question 16

It is a protection against humiliation and is expressed as a tendency to humiliate others.

Answer 16

prestige

Question 17

Acts as a buffer against destitution and poverty and manifests itself as a tendency to deprive
others.

Answer 17

possession

Question 18

Neurotics frequently protect themselves against basic anxiety either by developing an independence from others or by becoming emotionally detached from them. What protective device is this?

Answer 18

withdrawal

Question 19

Refers to a neurotic need to protect oneself against feelings of helplessness.

Answer 19

moving toward people

Question 20

Aggressive people take for granted that everyone is hostile.

Answer 20

moving against people

Question 21

Some people behave in a detached manner and adopt a neurotic trend of _______________.

Answer 21

moving away from people

Question 22

Horney referred to this comprehensive drive toward actualizing the ideal self as ________________.

Answer 22

the neurotic search for glory

Question 23

3 elements of the neurotic search for glory:

Answer 23

1. the need for perfection
2. neurotic ambition
3. the drive toward a vindictive triumph

Question 24

Refers to the drive to mold the whole personality into

the idealized self.

Answer 24

the need for perfection

Question 25

“Forget about the disgraceful creature you actually are; this is how you should be”. What drive is this?

Answer 25

tyranny of the should

Question 26

The compulsive drive toward superiority.

Answer 26

neurotic ambition

Question 27

“Its chief aim is to put others to shame or defeat them through one’s very success; or to attain the power
. . . to inflict suffering on them—mostly of a humiliating kind”. What element is this?

Answer 27

the drive toward a vindictive triumph

Question 28

Believing that something is wrong with the outside world, they proclaim that they are special and therefore entitled to be treated in accordance with their idealized view of themselves.

Answer 28

neurotic claims

Question 29

A false pride based not on a realistic view of the true self but on a spurious image of the idealized self.

Answer 29

neurotic pride

Question 30

6 major ways in which people express self-hatred:

Answer 30

1. relentless demands on the self
2. merciless self-accusation
3. self-contempt
4. self-frustration
5. self-torment
6. self-destructive actions and impulses