Lecture Sept 27

Question 1

Karen Horney life

Answer 1

1885-1952

neglected second born

father was religious, domineering, imperious, morose

mother was attractive, freethinking and spirited

Question 2

Horney’s disagreements with Freud

Answer 2

1. disagreed with Oedipal complex
2. disagreed with division of mind into id, ego, superego
3. thought Freud’s theory reflected a diff country and time - so problems that people experience must be CULTURALLY, not biologically, determined
4. sexual problems secondary to jobs, food, medical care

Question 3

Horney - childhood need for safety

Answer 3

1. ridicule and humiliation
2. isolation of child from peers
3. infant’s helplessness increases when they’re kept in an exclusively dependent state

Question 4

Horney - reasons for child to repress hostility towards parents

Answer 4

punishments

love

guilt

Question 5

Horney: basic evil

Answer 5

anything parents do that UNDERMINES a child’s SECURITY

Question 6

Horney: basic hostility

Answer 6

feeling generated in a child if needs for:

• safety
• satisfaction

aren’t consistently and lovingly satisfied by parents

Question 7

Horney: basic anxiety

Answer 7

psychological state that exists when basic hostility is repressed

general feeling that everyone in world is potentially dangerous

Question 8

basic anxiety causes feelings of…

Answer 8

helplessness and loneliness

there are strategies for minimizing anxiety

Question 9

neurotic needs and trends

Answer 9

strategies for minimizing basic anxiety

10 needs

3 trends to deal with the needs

Question 10

10 neurotic needs

Answer 10

1. need for affection and approval
2. need for a partner who will run one’s life
3. need to live one’s life within narrow limits
4. need for power
5. need to exploit others
6. need for social recognition and prestige
7. need for personal admiration
8. need for ambition and personal achievement
9. need for self-sufficiency and independence
10. need for protection and unassailability

Question 11

3 neurotic trends

Answer 11

1. movement toward people (compliant personality)
2. movement against people (aggressive/hostile personality)
3. movement away from people (detached personality)

Question 12

moving toward people

Answer 12

compliant type

“if I give in, I shall not be hurt”

Question 13

moving against people

Answer 13

hostile type

“if I have power, no one can hurt me”

Question 14

moving away from people

Answer 14

detached type

“if I withdraw, nothing can hurt me”

Question 15

Erik Erikson’s approach to personality

Answer 15

ego psychology

believed ego is a relatively powerful, independent part of personality

Question 16

Erikson’s principal function of the ego

Answer 16

establish and maintain SENSE OF IDENTITY

identity crisis: confusion and despair we feel when we lack strong sense of who we are