CHAPTER 6 HORNEY

• Like Melanie Klein, Horney accepted many of Freud's observations, but she objected to most of his interpretations, including his notions on feminine psychology.
• Ø  INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIAL THEORY

  A) rigidity

  B) feminine

  C) biology

  D) pleasure

  
• A.    The Impact of Culture

  Horney insisted that modern culture is too competitive and that competition leads to hostility and feelings of isolation
• These conditions lead to exaggerated needs for affection and cause people to overvalue love
• -       Neurotic conflict

  stems largely from childhood traumas, most of which are traced to a lack of genuine love.
• Children who do not receive genuine affection feel threatened and adopt rigid behavioral patterns in an attempt to gain love
• Ø  BASIC HOSTILITY AND BASIC ANXIETY

  All children need feelings of safety and security, but these can be gained only by love from parents
• Unfortunately, parents often neglect, dominate, reject, or overindulge their children, conditions that lead to the child's feelings of basic hostility toward parents
• If children repress feelings of basic hostility, they will develop feelings of insecurity and a pervasive sense of apprehension called basic anxiety
• • People can protect themselves from basic anxiety through a number of protective devices, including:

   

  (1)   affection,

   

  (2)   submissiveness,

   

  (3)   power, prestige, or possession, and

   

  (4) withdrawal. 
• Normal people have the flexibility to use any or all of these approaches, but neurotics are compelled to rely rigidly on only one
• Basic Hostility - Aggression directed toward others as a result of frustration or fear
• LABEL OF FOLLOWING:

  A) basic hostility

  B) basic anxiety

  C) normal

  D) spontaneous

  E) toward

  F) loving

  G) against

  H) away

  I) neurotic

  J) compulsive

  K) compliant

  L) aggressive

  M) detached

  
• A.    The Idealized Self-Image

  -       People who do not receive love and affection during childhood are blocked in their attempt to acquire a stable sense of identity.
• Feeling alienated from self, they create an idealized self-image, or an extravagantly positive picture of themselves
• A.    Self-Hatred

  -       Neurotics dislike themselves because reality always falls short of their idealized view of self.
• -       Therefore, they learn self-hatred, which can be expressed as: 

   

  (1)   relentless demands on the self,

   

  (2)   merciless self-accusation,

   

  (3)   self-contempt,

   

  (4)   self-frustration,

   

  (5)   self-torment or self-torture, and

   

  (6)   self-destructive actionsand impulses.
• Ø  FEMININE PSYCHOLOGY

  Idea this not anatomy but based on culture what reality of femininity and masculinity.