Karen Horney Neo-Freudian View Accomplishments on Self-Realization

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Karen Horney Neo-Freudian ViewAccomplishments
on Self-Realization
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About Horney

• When she was very young, she had a crush on her
  older brother, he soon pushed her away. This
  would be the start of her depression.
• She entered medical school against her parent's
  wishes and graduated in 1913.
• Later Karen decided to enter into the pursuit of
  psychoanalysis.
• Oskar Horney, her husband, was a very mean
  aggressive man, Horney finally built up the
  courage just as her mom did when she was a kid to
  move away from her horrible husband.
• Soon after Karen's brother died. These events
  made Horney enter into a second state of
  depression.

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Neurotic Individuals

• Neurosis is a mental
  disorder in which
  emotional stress
  is
  expressed through physiological, and mental
  disturbances.
• They may experience anxiety, depression, anger,
  irritability, mental confusion, low sense of
  self-worth, unpleasant or disturbing thoughts,
  negativity, or perfectionism.

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Self-Realization

• According to Horney we have two views of our
  self
• The real self is who and what we actually are,
  this self has the potential to grow.
• The ideal self the type of person we feel that
  we should be, a role model to the real self.
• A person who does not suffer from neurosis knows
  the differences between the real and ideal self.
• A neurotic person's self is split between an
  idealized self and a real self. They feel that
  they somehow do not live up to the ideal self.
  Therefor making themselves feel useless because
  they aren't the best they can be.

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Neurosis

• She compiled a detailed theory of neurosis, with
  data from her patients. She named ten patterns of
  neurotic needs
• The need for affection pleasing others.
• The need for a partner one they can love and who
  will solve all problems.
• The need for power the neurotic may be desperate
  for it.
• The need to exploit others become manipulative.
• The need for social recognition limelight.
• The need for personal admiration to be valued.
• The need for personal achievement.
• The need for independence may discard other
  individuals entirely.
• The need for perfection display a fear of being
  even slightly flawed.
• The need to restrict life practices to live as
  unnoticeable as possible.
• Horney was able to condense them into three
  broad
  categories
  
  Compliance, Aggression, Detachment

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Neo-Freudianism

• Sigmund Freud had many controversial theories,
  the term Neo-Freudian referred any other
  psychoanalysis's thoughts on his theories.
• Horney refused to believe that woman had penis
  envy. She instead insisted on men having womb
  envy and the only reason they were driven to
  success was to make up for the fact that they
  could not carry a child.

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Freud's Response

• We shall not be very greatly surprised if a
  woman analyst who has not been sufficiently
  convinced of the intensity of her own wish for a
  penis (off book)

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How She Changed Psychology

• The Karen Horney Clinic opened
  on May 6, 1955 in New York
  City, The institution
  seeks to research and train
  medical professionals,
  as well as a low-cost treatment center
• She also was a major part of the feminine
  revolution, proving that woman are not inferior
  and that we do not have Penis envy