Lecture 6. Horney Flashcards
In psychoanalytic social theory, what is largely responsible for shaping one’s personality
Social and cultural conditions especially childhood experiences
Self-hatred is expressed as?
self-contempt or self-alienation
Karen Horney Birth Order
Youngest child and only daughter in Danielsen family
Father and mother of Karen Age Gap
father is 18 years older than the mother
Relationship of Karen with his father
Karen felt great hostility towarfs her father and grew disobeying him
Karen married with? And how many children did they have?
Oskar Horney and 2 Daughters
When she started her psychiatric practice, what did she do?
she wrote books opposing instinct theory if Freud and placed more emphasis on ego and social influences
What concept of Freud did Karen rejected?
The biological determinism, instead of libido and thanatos/mortido, the basic needs in childhood were security and satisfaction
Karen’s opposition to Freud’s work made her?
the President of rival organization
What organization did Karen became president?
Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis later became?
Karen Horney Psychoanalytic Institute
Most important book of Horney
Neurosis and Human Growth
Acc. to Horney, neurosis is?
caused by disturbed human relationships
Rudiments of neurotic behaviors are found in the?
relationships between the parent and child
Child starts life with?
feelings of helplessness relative to the parents
Basic Hostility
developed an abused child towards his parents
Basic Anxiety is aka.
Basic conflict
Basic Anxiety is developed as?
Developed as conflict between basic hostility and dependency on parents, thus repressing their basic hostility to survive
Basic anxiety is a feeling of?
A feeling of being small, insignificant, helpless, deserted and endangered
10 Neurotic Needs
- affection and approval
- powerful partner
- restrict one’s life within narrow borders
- power
- exploit others
- social recognition or prestige
- personal admiration
- ambition and personal achievement
- self-sufficiency and independence
- perfection and unassailability
The neurotic need for affection and approval
desire to be loved and admired by others
The neurotic need for a powerful partner
desire to be protected from all dangers
the Neurotic need to restrict one’s life within narrow borders
desire to be conservative, avoiding defeat by attempting very little
the neurotic need for power
glorifying strength and despising weakness
the neurotic need to exploit others
dreading to be taken advantage by others, but thinks nothing except how to take advantage of another
the neurotic need for social recognition or prestige
desire to be recognized, give attention, importance
the neurotic need for personal admiration
desire to be flattered, complimented, idolized by others
the neurotic need for ambition and personal achievement
intense interest to be famous, rich, important, unreachable, grandiose
the neurotic need for self-sufficiency and independence
avoids being obligated, not be enslaved, possessed, tied down, committed
the neurotic need for perfection and unassailability
desire to be flawless because of the hypersensitivity to criticisms
3 Neurotic Trends
Moving Toward People, moving against people, moving away from people
Moving toward people “?”
If i give in, I shall not be hurt
Another term for Moving toward people
The compliant type
Moving against people “?”
If i have power, no one can hurt me
Another term for moving against people
the hostile type
Moving away from people “?”
If I withdraw, nothing can hurt me
Another term for Moving away from people
the detached type
Neurotic Needs that belong to MTP
affection & approval, powerful partner, restrict one’s life within narrow borders
Neurotic needs that belong to MAP
power, exploit others, social recognition & prestige, ambition & personal achievement
Neurotic needs that belong to MAFP
self-sufficiency & independence, perfection & unassailability
Neurotic Trends is aka.
Primary Adjustment Technique
8 Secondary Adjustment Techniques
Blind Spots, Compartmentalization, Rationalization, Excessive Self-Control, Externalization, Arbitrary Rightness, Elusiveness, Cynicism
Blind spots
Denying or ignoring certain aspects in an experience if not in accordance with idealized self
Compartmentalization
dividing one’s life into various components with diff. rules applying to them
Rationalization
giving good reason to excuse conduct that would be anxiety producing
Excessive Self-Control
guarding against anxiety by controlling an expression of emotion
Externalization
person does not feel responsible for himself or his actions
Arbitrary Rightness
based on personal choice, insisting authority and finality to end debate
Elusiveness
never making a decision about anything
Cynicism
not believing in anything
2 Intrapsychic Conflicts
Idealized Self-Image and Self-Hatred
Idealized Self-Image for Normal People
a concept of what we would like to become
goal to reach in the future
where we can organize our lives and aspire for
Idealized Self-Image for Neurotic People
more of an escape from real self
a wish instead of reality
instead of self realization, theu move towards actualizing their idealized self
3 Aspects of Idealized Self
Neurotic Search for Glory, Neurotic Claims, neurotic pride
Neurotic search for glory
need for perfection, neurotic ambition and vindictive triumph.
A compulsive drive toward actualizing the ideal self
neurotic claims
building a fantasy world, proclaiming that they are special and therefore entitled to be treated in accordance with their idealized view of themselves
neurotic pride
loud proclamation of self to protect and support a glorified view of one’s self.
Self-Hatred
Neurotic people search for glory due to their unhappiness with themselves for not reaching idealized self-image, therefore hating and despising themselves
6 Major Ways in Expressing Self-Hatred
Relentless demands on the self
merciless self-accusation
self-contempt
self-frustration
self-torment
self-destructive actions and impulses
Why people develop a number of strategies to cope uo with basic anxiety?
due to experienced stressed and tensions
Idealized Self-Image
imaginary picture of the self as a possessor of unlimited powers and superlative qualities
Actual Self
one in everyday life, frustrated, anxious, disappointed for not living up with the idealized self
Real Self
will only be realized if the person begins to internalize that impossibility of idealized self and embracing the failures of actual self
Oedipus Complex in Feminine Psychology
due to certain environment conditions and not to biology
an expression of neurotic need for love, rooted in security from parents and not sexual intercourses
Masculine Protest
is a wish of women to have all qualities or privileges given to men, but not an expression of penis envy
On Gender Differences in Feminine Psychology
Society is responsible for psychological difference between women and men
Horneyian Therapy
help patients gradually grow in the direction of self-realization
Psychotherapy for Horney is to be free from?
tyranny of the should (imaginary picture of perfection)
To Horney, all therapy uses?
self-therapy since no change could take plave without the involvement of the client
For Horney, change is?
change is possible throughout one’s life
Although early childhood years are crucial to neuroticism, the effects of the experiences are?
reversible
