Introduction + Basic Hostility and Basic Anxiety

Question 1

These contradictions—all stemming from cultural influences rather than biological ones—provide intrapsychic conflicts that threaten the psychological health of
normal people and provide nearly insurmountable obstacles for neurotics.

Answer 1

The Impact of Culture

Question 2

Horney (1939) hypothesized that a difficult childhood is primarily responsible for neurotic needs. These needs become powerful because they are the child’s
only means of gaining feelings of safety

Answer 2

The Impact of Culture

Question 2

Primary among these is the parents’ inability or unwillingness to love their child. Because of their own neurotic needs, parents often dominate, neglect, overprotect, reject, or overindulge.

Answer 2

Basic Hostility and Basic Anxiety

Question 2

Horney believed that neurotic conflict can stem from almost any developmental
stage, but childhood is the age from which the vast majority of problems arise. A
variety of traumatic events, such as sexual abuse, beatings, open rejection, or pervasive neglect, may leave their impressions on a child’s future development;

Answer 2

The Impact of Culture

Question 3

If parents do not satisfy the child’s needs for safety and satisfaction, the child develops feelings of __________ toward the parents.

Answer 3

basic hostility

Question 4

feeling of being isolated and helpless in a world conceived as potentially hostile

Answer 4

basic anxiety

Question 4

Repressed hostility then
leads to profound feelings of insecurity and a vague sense of apprehension.

Answer 4

basic anxiety

Question 5

a feeling of being small, insignificant, helpless, deserted, endangered, in a world that is out to abuse, cheat, attack,
humiliate, betray, envy

Answer 5

basic anxiety

Question 6

a strategy that does not always lead to authentic love. In their search for this, some people may try to purchase love with self-effacing compliance, material goods, or
sexual favors.

Answer 6

affection

Question 7

Neurotics may submit themselves either to people or to institutions such as an organization or a religion.
Neurotics who submit to another person often do so in order to gain affection.

Answer 7

submissiveness

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Power

Question 8

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

Answer 8

prestige

Question 8

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

Answer 8

possession

Question 8

Neurotics frequently protect
themselves against basic anxiety either by developing an independence from others
or by becoming emotionally detached from them. B

Answer 8

withdrawal