Lesson 3

• Who explained pschoanalytic social theory?

  Karen Horney
• What did psychoanalytic social theory state?

  people who didn't receive enough love in their childhood have basic hostility and result to basic anxiety
• What is basic anxiety

  1. Moving towards people
  2. Moving against people
  3. moving away from people
• What is a neurotics compulsive behavior result to?

  Intrapsychic conflict
• What are the forms of intrapsychic conflict

  Self-image and self-hatred
• Self-image

  1. Neurotic search for glory
  2. Neurotic claims
  3. Neurotic pride
• Self-hatred


  is epressed as either self-contempt or alienation from self
• What did Horney say about the impact of culture with psychoanalytic social theory?

  • She didn't overlook genetics
  • Emphasized cultural influences as the primary bases for both neurotic and normal personality development
• what did Horney say about modern culture

  it is based on culture
• Who stated, "Everyone is a real or potential competitor of everyone else"

  Karen Horney
• Competitiveness and hostility spawn from

  the feeling of isolation
• What did Horney say about isolation

  Being isolated result to hostililty, this leads to intensified need for affection (this cause people to over value love)
• What is the impotance of childhood experiences?

  • neurotic conflct could stem from almost anu development stage

  _ a difficult childhood = neurotic needs
• Neurotic needs are powerful because it's a child's only means from getting feelings of safety
• No single experience from the past is responsible for future actions
• "The sum total of childhood experiences brings about a certain character structure, or rather, starts its development"
• Compulsive drives 


  Neurotic individuals have the same problems that affect normal people, but neurotics experience them to a greater degree
• Neurotics can't control what they feel but they must continually and compulsively protect themselves against basic anxiety .
• Compulsive need to avoid basic anxiety leds to

  • perpetuate low self-esteem
  • generalized hostility
  • Inappropriate striving for power
  • inflated feelings of superiority
  • persistent apprehension

  _These result to basic anxiety
• Characteristics to combat basic anxiety

  10 categories of neurotic needs
• • attempt indiscriminately to please others
  • dread self-assertion
  • uncomfortable with hostiity with others to themselves and from others

  The neurotic need for affection and approval
• • lack of self-confidence
  • They try to attach themselves with a poweful partner
  • overvaluation of love
  • dread being alone or desserted 


  A neurotic need for a powerful partner
• toward people

  Friendly and loving
• Against people

  Survivor in a competitive society
• Away from people

  Autonomous, serene
• Neurotic’s compulsive movement

  Toward people and compliant
• neurotic compulsive movement

  Against people -> aggressive
• neurotic compulsive behavior

  Away from people -> dettached
• Real self 


  What a person believes in (preferences)
• Idealized self

  what people want to be, artificial self pride
• Actual self 


  what a person really is at a given time (objectively)
• who made the structural model of personality

  sigmund freud
• what is the structural model of personality

  personality is composed of 3 elements. the id, the ego, the superego. These work together to make human behaviors
• late adolescense 


  17-21
• Movement towards independence (middle adolescence)

  • Lowered opinion of and withdrawal from parents
  • Effort to make new friends
  • Strong emphasis on the new peer group
  • Periods of sadness as the psychological loss of parents takes place
  • Examination of inner experiences
• • Developing Occupational skills – targeted to help develop responsibility in preparation for future employment.
• • Developing self-reliance – to identify one’s own skills and knowledge, capabilities, and resources to engage in meaningful activities without relying too much on others.
• • Learning to manage finances – which involves being able to discern the difference between ‘wants’ and ‘needs’  and learn self-control when handling finances.
• • Understanding social responsibility – which involves being able to see beyond oneself, taking the greater community into consideration, and seeing one’s role in the community as an agent of change.
• • Acquiring a mature work orientation – which entails having pride in what one does, and raising standards of excellence in one’s quality of work.