Karen Horney Flashcards
early childhood traumas are important, but she placed far more emphasis on social factors.
Horney’s Psychoanalytic
Social Theory
Horney and Freud Compared
(1) its rigidity toward new ideas,
(2) its skewed view of feminine psychology
(3) its overemphasis on biology and the pleasure principle.
Horney insisted that modern culture is too competitive and that competition leads to hostility and feelings of isolation. These conditions lead to exaggerated needs for affection and cause people to overvalue love.
The Impact of Culture
Neurotic conflict stems largely from childhood traumas, most of which are traced to a lack of genuine love.
The Importance of Childhood
Experiences
parents often neglect, dominate, reject, or overindulge their children, conditions that lead to the child’s feelings of ________ toward their parents.
basic hostility
If children repress basic hostility, they will develop feelings of insecurity and a pervasive sense of apprehension called
basic anxiety
People can protect themselves from basic anxiety by
(1) affection, (2) submissiveness, (3) power or prestige, and (4) withdrawal.
People who do not receive love and affection during childhood are blocked in their attempt to acquire a stable sense of identity. Feeling alienated from self, they create an __________, or an extravagantly positive picture of themselves.
idealized self-image
Horney recognized three aspects of the idealized self-image
(1) the neurotic search for glory
(2) neurotic claims
(3) neurotic pride
Neurotic individuals dislike themselves because reality always falls short of their idealized view of self. Therefore, they learn _______?
self-hatred
she insisted that any sexual attraction or hostility the child feels for the parent would be the result of learning and not biology.
Horney’s view of the Oedipus complex
