Karen Horney

Question 1

competitiveness and basic hostility leads to__

Answer 1

feelings of isolation

Question 2

the feeling of isolation or being alone in the hostile world leads to__

Answer 2

intensified needs for affection–which causes people to overvalue love

Question 3

the desperate need for love provides___

Answer 3

development of neuroses

Question 4

the striving force in psychoanalytic social theory

Answer 4

love <3

Question 5

why is a difficult childhood primarily responsible for neurotic needs

Answer 5

they are the child’s only means of gaining feelings of safety

Question 6

basic hostility

Answer 6

if the parents do not satisfy the child’s needs for safety and satisfaction

Question 7

basic anxiety

Answer 7

• repressed hostility leads to profound feelings of insecurity and apprehension
• “a feeling of being isolated and helpless in a world conceived as potentially hostile”

Question 8

(first) list if defenses against basic anxiety

Answer 8

affection: purchase love with self-effacing compliance, material goods, or sexual favors

submissiveness: submit to people/orgs/religion to gain affection

power: defense against real/imagined hostility; tendency to dominate others
prestige: protection against humiliation by humiliating others
possession: buffer against poverty; manifests as tendency to deprive others

withdrawal: developing independence from others; emotional detach from them

Question 9

compulsion

Answer 9

salient characteristic of all neurotic drives

Question 10

neurotic needs

Answer 10

characterizes neurotics in their attempts to combat basic anxiety

Question 11

three neurotic trends

Answer 11

moving toward people, moving against people, moving away from people

Question 12

moving toward people

Answer 12

• neurotic need to protect oneself from helplessness
• desperately strive for the affection, and approval of others, or they will seek a powerful partner who will take responsibility for their lives
• morbid dependency–codependency
• compliant personality

Question 13

moving against people

Answer 13

• takes for granted that everyone is hostile
• appear tough and ruthless; motivated by a strong need to exploit others and to use them for their own benefit
• basic motivation is power, prestige, and personal ambition
• aggressive personality

Question 14

moving toward people and moving against people are the same in what way?

Answer 14

“the center of gravity lies outside the person”

Question 15

moving away from people

Answer 15

• solves the basic conflict of isolation
• behave in a detached manner and expresses the need for privacy, independence, and self-sufficiency
• shun social commitments, but their greatest fear is to need other people
• detached personality

Question 16

origin of intrapsychic processes

Answer 16

from interpersonal experiences but as they become part of a person’s belief system, they develop a life of their own

Question 17

the idealized self-image

Answer 17

• feeling alienated from themselves, ppl need desperately to acquire a stable sense of identity. solved by creating an idealized self-image
• extravagantly positive views of themselves that exists only in their belief system
• neurotics lose their touch with the real self and becomes a standard of sel-evaluation

Question 18

the idealized self-image

Answer 18

• feeling alienated from themselves, ppl need desperately to acquire a stable sense of identity. solved by creating an idealized self-image
• extravagantly positive views of themselves that exist only in their belief system
• neurotics lose their touch with the real self and become a standard of self-evaluation

Question 19

neurotic search for glory

Answer 19

• comprehensive drive toward actualizing the ideal self
• three other elements: need for perfection, neurotic ambition, drive toward vindictive triumph

Question 20

need for perfection

Answer 20

• drive to mold the whole personality into the idealized self
• tyranny of the should: achieve perfection by erecting a complex set of “shoulds” and “should nots”

Question 21

neurotic ambition

Answer 21

• the compulsive drive toward superiority
• exaggerated need to excel in everything
• may also take a less materialistic form, such as being the most saintly or most charitable person in the community

Question 22

drive toward a vindictive triumph

Answer 22

• most destructive element of them all
• disguised as a drive for achievement or success, but “its chief aim is to put others to shame or defeat them through one’s very success”
• inflict suffering on them–mostly of a humiliating kind
• grows out of the childhood desire to take revenge for real or imagined humiliations

Question 23

neurotic claims

Answer 23

• neurotic build a fantasy world that is out of sync with the real world
• believing that something is wrong with the outside world, they proclaim that they are special and therefore entitles to be treated in accordance to their idealized view
• fail to see that their claims of special privilege are unreasonable

Question 24

neurotic pride

Answer 24

• a false pride based not on a realistic view of the true self but on a spurious image of the idealized self
• usually loudly proclaimed in order to protect and support a glorified view of the self

Question 25

self-hatred

Answer 25

people with a neurotic search for glory can never be happy with themselves because they would realize that their real self does not match the insatiable demands of their idealized self

Question 26

relentless demands on the self

Answer 26

• caused by self-hatred which are exemplified by the tyranny of the shoulds
• some people make demands on themselves that don’t stop even when they achieve a measure of success

Question 27

merciless self-accusation

Answer 27

neurotics constantly berate themselves

Question 28

self-contempt

Answer 28

• belittling, doubting, discrediting oneself
• prevents people from striving for improvement or achievement

Question 29

self-frustration

Answer 29

• stems from self-hatred and is designed to actualize an inflated self-image
• neurotics are frequently shackled by taboos against enjoyment

Question 30

self-torment or torture

Answer 30

• ppl’s main intention is to inflict harm or suffering on themselves
• some attain masochistic satisfaction by anguishing over a decision

Question 31

self-destructive actions and impulses

Answer 31

• physical, psychological, conscious, unconscious…
• overeating, abusing alcohol and drugs, working too hard, driving recklessly, suicide

Question 32

the two greatest neurotic needs

Answer 32

power and affection