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