Karen Horney Flashcards
built on the assumption that social and cultural conditions, especially childhood experiences, are largely responsible for shaping personality.
psychoanalytical social theory
if parents do not satisfy the child’s needs for safety and satisfaction, the child develops feelings of
basic hostility
repressed hostility then leads to profound feelings of insecurity and a vague sense of apprehension.
basic anxiety
defenses against basic anxiety:
affection
submissiveness
power/prestige/possession
withdrawal
strategy that does not always lead to authentic love
affection
neurotics may submit themselves
submissiveness
tendency to dominate others.
power
a protection against humiliation and is expressed as a tendency to humiliate others.
prestige
acts as a buffer against destitution and poverty and manifests itself as a tendency to deprive others.
possession
neurotics frequently protect themselves against basic anxiety either by developing an independence from others or by becoming emotionally detached from them.
withdrawal
different neurotic needs:
for affection and approval / for a powerful partner / to restrict one’s life within narrow borders / for power and control / to exploit others / for social recognition or prestige / for personal admiration / for ambition and personal achievement / for self-sufficiency and independence / for perfection and unassailability
They try to live up to the expectations of others
neurotic need for affection and approval
This need includes an overvaluation of love and dread of being alone or deserted.
neurotic need for a powerful partner
They downgrade their own abilities and dread making demands on others.
neurotic need to restrict one’s life within narrow borders
need to control others and to avoid feelings of weakness or stupidity.
neurotic need for power and control
evaluate others on the basis of how they can be used or exploited,
neurotic need to exploit others
to be important or to attract attention to themselves.
neurotic need for social recognition or prestige
Their inflated self esteem must be continually fed by admiration and approval of others.
neurotic need for personal admiration
They must defeat other people in order to confirm their superiority.
neurotic need for ambition and personal achievement
have a strong need to move away from people
neurotic need for self-sufficiency and independence
They dread making mistakes and having personal flaws and they desperately attempt to hide their weakness from others.
neurotic need for perfection and unassailability
solve basic conflict, but unfortunately, these solutions are essentially non productive or neurotic.
neurotic trends
it refers to a neurotic need to protect oneself against feelings and helplessness
moving towards people
neurotic needs that are moving towards people:
for affection and approval / for a powerful partner
exploit others and to use them for their own benefit.
moving against people
neurotic needs that are moving against people:
to restrict one’s life within narrow borders / for power and control / to exploit others / for social recognition or prestige / for personal admiration
This strategy is an expression or needs of privacy, independence, and self sufficiency.
moving away from people
neurotic needs that are moving away from people:
for ambition and personal achievement / for self-sufficiency and independence / for perfection and unassailability
an extravagantly positive view of themselves that exists only in their personal belief system.
the idealized self - image
They proclaim they are special and entitled
the neurotic search for glory
achieve perfection by erecting a complex set of “should” and “should nots”
need for perfection
being the most saintly or most charitable person in the community.
neurotic ambition
To inflict suffering on people
drive toward vindictive triumph
grow out of normal needs and wishes / neurotics become indignant, bewildered and unable to comprehend why others have not granted their claims.
neurotic claims
based on a spurious image of the idealized self.
neurotic pride
their real self does not match insatiable demands of their idealized view of self.
self - hatred
types of self - hatred
relentless demand on the self / merciless self - accusation / self - contempt / self frustration / self - torment / self - destructive and impulses
push themselves towards perfection
relentless demand on the self
constantly berate themselves
merciless self - accusation
ridiculing oneself
self - contempt
actualize an inflates self - image
self - frustration
masochistic satisfaction
self - torment
expressions of physical self destruction
self - destructive and impulses
