Karen Horney Flashcards
1 Neurotic Needs
- childhood need for safety
-infant helplessness need for safety was not met
-excessively, dependent, punishment, lack of affection guilt causes hostility
Basic Anxiety
Repressed hostility leading to feelings of loneliness- effects ego
Compliant Personality
-Moves towards people
-fears rejection, seeks approval
-subordinates personal desires,
-feels Infor to others
- other peoples standards
- submissive
Aggressive Personality
-Moves against people
-driven by insecurity and hostility
-highly successful
-loud supority
Detached Personality
-Moves away from people,
-maintains emotional distance
-suppression of feelings
-logical process
-private
Idealized Self Image
Unattainable view of self leading to denial
Neo-Psychoanalytic Approach
Expands Freud’s ideas of studyting uncounisous and biological factors in childhood, emphasizing importance of social and cultural factors, early childhood experiences
Childhood Safety Need
Essential need for security during early development.
3 Neurotic Trends !(personalities)
1-compliant personality
2-aggressive personality
-safety need never got met and repress hostility
3-detached personality
Patterns of behavior stemming from unmet needs.
Movement Toward People
Movement Against People
Seeking affection and approval from others.
Aggressive behavior to assert dominance.
Healthy Personality
Can express needs appropriately based on context.
Neurotic Person
Dominated by one neurotic trend, unmet needs.
Normal Person
Expresses needs flexibly, balancing conflicting desires
2 children’s self protective mechanisms
1- securing affection and love( if they love me they wont hurt me)
2-being submissive (submission=less likely to hurt me)
3- attainting power (If i have power)
4- withdrawing into self (i don’t need parents, protection form hurt)
4 Idealized self image
-healthy person- tend to have accurate view of self strengths and weaknesses
reflects growth and awareness
-neurotic characteristics- unattainable inflexible ideal
leads to denial of self
When self protective mechanism’s used too much
Turns into a
neurotic need
Needs and trends- situation’s
Conflict**
-neurotic trends incompatible
-core of neurosis
Neurotic person**
-one of the three trends is dominate
-other needs in conflict go unmet
Normal person**
-able to express needs and trends as circumstances warrant
-needs in conflict with neurotic dominate need (ex compliant standing up for self but cant)
Feminine psychology
Social environment culturally and gender wise also shapes who you are and self perception
She would say:
Oedipus Complex, Not sexual
-Represents conflict between dependence & hostility
Flight from Womanhood
-Denial of femininity
-Women’s unconscious wish to be men
Womb Envy
-Envy men feel toward women due to her capacity for motherhood
-Social & cultural conflict
neo psychoanalytic
k & A
An approach to the study of personality that expands on the original psychoanalytic ideas.
The neo-psychoanalytic approach acknowledges the importance of early
childhood experiences however, gives additional focus to social and cultural
factors in addition to
unconscious and biological factors. (added onto Freuds)
four ways parents cause infant helplessness
- parent keeps child excessively dependent
- Increased helpless through punishment
- fake love
- guilt
all cause repressed hostility
Methods
Clinical observations, case sturdies, cultural influences
Externalization
what part of her theory has modern research incorporated
10 neurotic needs
- affection & approval
- a dominate partner
- power
- explanation
- prestige
6.admiration - achievement or ambition
- self sufficiency
- perfection
10.narrow limits to life
