Who's Horney? Infographic
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Cloninger, Susan C. “Horney and Relational Theory: Interpersonal Psychoanalytic Theory.” Theories of Personality: Understanding Persons, Prentice-Hall, Harlow, 2003, pp. 157–181. “Karen Horney Biography.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karen-Horney. Team, GoodTherapy Editor. “Karen Horney (1885-1952).” Karen Horney Biography, GoodTherapy, 11 Nov. 2011, https://www.goodtherapy.org/famous-psychologists/karen-horney.html. References a + b = c 2 2 2 Horney's Three Neurotic Solutions Self Effacing Solution: The Appeal of Love ( “The Compliant Personality”) Moving Toward People Expansive Solution: The Appeal of Mystery (“The Aggressive Personality”) Moving Against People Resignation: The Appeal of Freedom (‘The Detached Personality”) Moving away from People 1. 2. 3. Anti-Freud Horney began to disagree with Sigmund Freud because he treated female psychology as an offshoot of male psychology. She went against the ideas of “penis envy” and began to coin the term “womb envy”. This term relays to men that they are inferior to women because they have limited reproductive capabilities. In particular, Horney objected to Freud’s concepts of the libido, the death instinct, and the Oedipus complex, which she thought could be more adequately explained by cultural and social conditions. Background Karen Horney was a strong woman from Hamburg, Germany who deep-dived into feminist psychology. She argued that personality in men and women are more influenced by society rather than anatomy. WHO'S HORNEY? Key Terms Basic Hostility: A feeling of hostility and resentment toward the parents that develops as a result of the basic anxiety that the infant feels at being dependent on them. Basic Anxiety: A feeling of isolation and helplessness resulting from inadequate parenting. Actual Self: What a person really is at a given time, seen objectively Idealized self: An image of what a person wishes to be Penis Envy: In the classical psychoanalytic theory of Sigmund Freud, the hypothesized desire of girls and women to possess the male genital organ. Womb Envy: In psychoanalytic theory, the envy felt by some men for the reproductive capacity of women, regarded as an unconscious motive that leads them to denigrate women.
Transcript of Who's Horney? Infographic
Cloninger, Susan C. “Horney and Relational Theory: Interpersonal Psychoanalytic Theory.” Theories ofPersonality: Understanding Persons, Prentice-Hall, Harlow, 2003, pp. 157–181.
“Karen Horney Biography.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.,https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karen-Horney.
Team, GoodTherapy Editor. “Karen Horney (1885-1952).” Karen Horney Biography, GoodTherapy, 11Nov. 2011, https://www.goodtherapy.org/famous-psychologists/karen-horney.html.
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Horney's ThreeNeurotic Solutions
Self Effacing Solution: TheAppeal of Love ( “TheCompliant Personality”)Moving Toward PeopleExpansive Solution: TheAppeal of Mystery (“TheAggressive Personality”)Moving Against People Resignation: The Appeal ofFreedom (‘The DetachedPersonality”) Moving awayfrom People
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Anti-Freud Horney began to disagree with Sigmund Freudbecause he treated female psychology as an offshootof male psychology. She went against the ideas of“penis envy” and began to coin the term “wombenvy”. This term relays to men that they are inferiorto women because they have limited reproductivecapabilities. In particular, Horney objected to Freud’sconcepts of the libido, the death instinct, and theOedipus complex, which she thought could be moreadequately explained by cultural and socialconditions.
Background Karen Horney was a strong woman fromHamburg, Germany who deep-dived intofeminist psychology. She argued thatpersonality in men and women are moreinfluenced by society rather than anatomy.
WHO'SHORNEY?
Key Terms Basic Hostility: A feeling of hostility and resentment
toward the parents that develops as a result of the basicanxiety that the infant feels at being dependent on
them. Basic Anxiety: A feeling of isolation and helplessness
resulting from inadequate parenting. Actual Self: What a person really is at a given time, seen
objectively Idealized self: An image of what a person wishes to bePenis Envy: In the classical psychoanalytic theory ofSigmund Freud, the hypothesized desire of girls and
women to possess the male genital organ.Womb Envy: In psychoanalytic theory, the envy felt by
some men for the reproductive capacity of women,regarded as an unconscious motive that leads them to
denigrate women.
