Psychoanalytic Social Theory: Karen Horney

Question 1

People who do not have their needs for love and affection satisfied during childhood develop basic hostility toward their parents and, as a consequence, suffer from _____.

Answer 1

basic anxiety

Question 2

Man is ruled not by the pleasure principle alone but by two guiding principles: _____.

Answer 2

safety and satisfaction

Question 3

Modern culture, she contended, is based on _____ among individuals. “Everyone is a real or potential competitor of everyone else”.

Answer 3

competition

Question 4

_____ is a defense against the real or imagined hostility of others and takes the form of a tendency to dominate others;

Answer 4

Power

Question 5

_____ is a protection against humiliation and is expressed as a tendency to humiliate others;

Answer 5

Prestige

Question 6

_____ acts as a buffer against destitution and poverty and manifest itself as a tendency to deprive others.

Answer 6

Possession

Question 7

Protective devices to guard against the rejection, hostility, and competitiveness of others.

Answer 7

Compulsive Drives

Question 8

The third aspect of the neurotic search for glory, the most destructive element of all. Disguised as a drive for achievement or success but “its chief aim is to put others to shame or defeat them through one’s very success

Answer 8

Vindictive Triumph

Question 9

For Horney, psychic differences between men and women are not the result of anatomy but rather of cultural and social expectations.

Answer 9

Feminine Psychology

Question 10

In fact, boys sometimes do express a desire to have a baby, but this desire is not the result of a universal male _____.

Answer 10

“womb envy”.