CHAPTER 6: Karen Horney "Psychoanalytic Social Theory" Flashcards
According to Karen Horney, the presence of ____ and ____ conditions especially childhood experiences, are largely responsible for shaping personality.
society and culture
Society and Culture is the main point of ______ Theory of Horney.
Psychoanalytic Social Theory
Three (3) fundamental styles of relating to others
(NEUROTIC TRENDS)
- Moving toward people
- Moving against people
- Moving away from people
The clash that occurs between opposing neurotic needs, such as the excessive need for power & independence. It takes the form of either an idealized self-image or self-hatred.
Intrapsychic Conflict
Idealized self-image is expressed as:
1.
2.
3.
- Neurotic search for glory
- Neurotic claims
- Neurotic pride
The concept says that the inferiority of women is not a biological predisposition, but rather because of social and cultural expectations.
Feminine Psychology
Karen Horney was born on
Hamburg, Germany
In ___ (year), Horney became part of the First Women to study medicine in Germany.
1906
She believed that culture, not anatomy was responsible for psychic differences between men and women.
Karen Horney
According to Horney, early childhood experiences are important, but more so are ____ & ____ than sex.
safety and security
Horney’s view is ___ rather than pessimistic (centered on cultural forces that are amenable to change).
optimistic
If parents do not satisfy the child’s need for safety and satisfaction, the child develops feelings of ___ toward the parents.
Basic hostility
Repressed hostility then leads to profound feelings of insecurity and a vague sense of apprehension called?
Basic anxiety
Four (4) ways to protect self from the hostile world
- Affection
- Submission
- Power (Domination)
- Withdrawal
WAYS OF PROTECTING SELF AGAINST HOSTILE WORLD:
Not always leading to authentic love, but purchased through self-effacing compromise or material goods.
Affection
WAYS OF PROTECTING SELF AGAINST HOSTILE WORLD:
_____ to people or institutions to gain affection
Submission
WAYS OF PROTECTING SELF AGAINST HOSTILE WORLD:
Defense against real or imagined hostility of others, and the tendency to dominate.
Power (Domination)
WAYS OF PROTECTING SELF AGAINST HOSTILE WORLD:
Two (2) types of Power; explain.
- Prestige - to exploit others
- Possession - tendency to deprive people
WAYS OF PROTECTING SELF AGAINST HOSTILE WORLD:
Developing independence and detachment
Withdrawal
The go-to response of individuals going through basic anxiety
Neurotic needs
NEUROTIC NEEDS
Attempt indiscriminately to please others. They try to live up to the expectations of others; and dread self-assertion.
Neurotic need for possession and approval
NEUROTIC NEEDS
Attach themselves to a powerful partner. This need includes an overvaluation of love and a dread of being alone or deserted.
Neurotic need for a powerful partner
NEUROTIC NEEDS
“Humiliate someone”. They downgrade their abilities and dread making demands on others.
Neurotic need to restrict one’s life within narrow borders
NEUROTIC NEEDS
The need for power is usually combined with the need for prestige and possession. Manifests itself as the need to control others and to avoid feelings of weakness or stupidity.
Neurotic need for power
NEUROTIC NEEDS
Neurotics frequently evaluate others based on how they can be used or exploited, but at the same time, they fear being exploited by others.
Neurotic need to exploit others
NEUROTIC NEEDS
Some people combat basic anxiety by trying to be first, to be important, or to attract attention to themselves.
Neurotic for social recognition and prestige
NEUROTIC NEEDS
“Think too much about themselves or above others”. Their inflated self-esteem must be continually fed by the admiration and approval of others.
Neurotic need for personal admiration
NEUROTIC NEEDS
They must defeat other people in order to confirm their superiority.
Neurotic need for ambition and personal achievement
NEUROTIC NEEDS
Many neurotics have a strong need to move away from people, thereby proving that they can get along without others.
Neurotic need for self-sufficiency and independence
NEUROTIC NEEDS
Neurotics relentlessly strive for perfection in attempting to hide their weakness from others.
Neurotic need for perfection and unassailability
The coping mechanism or how individuals interact with and perceive other people
Neurotic Trends
The neurotic search for glory leads people to unhappiness because they begin to realize that their real self lags way behind their idealized self—despise the real self for being unable to meet their ideals.
Self-hatred
It refers to a neurotic need to protect oneself against feelings of helplessness. “Submissiveness and independence”.
Moving Toward People
Two (2) neurotic needs of Moving Toward People?
- desperately strive for the affection and approval of others
- seek a powerful partner who will take responsibility for their lives
Move against others by appearing tough or ruthless. Need to exploit others for own benefit.
Their motivation are: power, prestige, and personal ambition
Moving Against People
Solve basic conflict of isolation in a detached manner. This strategy is an expression of the need for privacy, dependency, and self-sufficiency.
Moving Away from People
It is how we see or depict ourselves as having god-like qualities. It exists in our personal belief system.
Idealized self-image
Comprehensive drive toward actualizing ideal self; self-concept. Incorporating aspects of life, and the tyranny of should.
Neurotic search for glory
They proclaim that they are special and therefore entitled to be treated in accordance with their idealized view of themselves.
Neurotic claims
False and unrealistic view of the true self but in a spurious image of the image of the idealized self.
Neurotic pride
WAYS OF EXPRESSING SELF-HATRED
These people continue to push themselves toward perfection because they believe they should be perfect. Doesn’t stop even when they achieve a measure of success.
Relentless demands on the self
WAYS OF EXPRESSING SELF-HATRED
Criticize oneself, berate oneself, take credit for improbable events, and question the virtue of own motivations.
Merciless self-accusation
WAYS OF EXPRESSING SELF-HATRED
Belittling, disparaging, doubting, discrediting, and ridiculing oneself.
Self-contempt
WAYS OF EXPRESSING SELF-HATRED
It is shackled by taboos against enjoyment
Self-frustration
WAYS OF EXPRESSING SELF-HATRED
People’s main intention is to inflict harm or suffering on themselves and attain masochistic satisfaction.
Self-torment or Self-torture
WAYS OF EXPRESSING SELF-HATRED
May be either physical or psychological, conscious or unconscious, acute or chronic, carried out in action or enacted only in the imagination.
Self-destructive actions and impulses
