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    PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIAL THEORY: KAREN HORNEY COURSE CODE

    SECOND SEMESTER | ACADEMIC YEAR: 2023-2024 | JENICKA JUNI

    child develops feelings of basic hostility toward the


    CORE CONCEPT: CULTURE AND CHILDHOOD parents:
    EXPERIENCES a) Expressed hostility - hostility as rage
    b) Repressed hostility - without awareness of it

    IMPACT OF CULTURE Basic anxiety a feeling of being isolated and helpless


    in a world conceived as potentially hostile
    Modern culture, she contended, is based on competition
    among individuals.
    NEUROTIC TRENDS
    Competitive and hostile world
    ● Moving Toward People - it refers to a neurotic
    Feeling of isolation
    need to protect oneself against feelings of
    Intensified need affection from other people helplessness. In their attempts to protect
    themselves against feelings of helplessness,
    Overvalue love (desperate for love that leads to compliant people employ either or both of the
    neurotic; genuine love a healthy, growth-producing first two neurotic needs; that is, they desperately
    experience) strive for affection and approval of others, or
    they seek a powerful partner who will take
    First, people of this society are imbued with the cultural responsibility for their lives
    teachings of kinship and humility. These teachings, ● Moving Against People - aggressive people
    however, run contrary to another prevailing attitude, take for granted that everyone is hostile; these
    namely, aggressiveness and the drive to win or be people move against others by appearing tough
    superior. Second, society’s demands for success and or ruthless. They are motivated by a strong need
    achievement are nearly endless, so that even when to exploit others and to use them for their own
    people achieve their material ambitions, additional goals benefit.
    are continually being placed before them. Third, Western ● Moving Away From People - to solve the basic
    society tells people that they are free, that they can conflict of isolation, some people behave in a
    accomplish anything through hard work and detached manner and adopt a neurotic trend of
    perseverance. In reality, however, the freedom of most moving away from people. This strategy is an
    people is greatly restricted by genetics, social position, expression of needs for privacy, independence,
    and the competitiveness of others. and self-sufficiency.

    THE IMPORTANCE OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES INTRAPSYCHIC CONFLICT

    Childhood is the age from which the vast majority of the inner conflicts that both normal and neurotic
    problems arise. A variety of traumatic events, such as individuals experience.
    sexual abuse, beatings, open rejection, or pervasive The Idealized Self-Image - an attempt to solve
    neglect, may leave their impressions on a child’s future conflicts by painting a godlike picture of oneself;
    development; but Horney insisted that these debilitating extravagantly positive view of themselves that exists
    experiences can almost invariably be traced to lack of only in their personal belief system.
    genuine warmth and affection. A difficult childhood is a) The Neurotic Search for Glory - they begin to
    primarily responsible for neurotic need. incorporate it into all aspects of their lives—their
    goals, their self-concept, and their relations with
    others.
    Lack of genuine love Neurotic needs
    ● need for perfection refers to the drive to mold
    the whole personality into the idealized self; a
    BASIC HOSTILITY AND BASIC ANXIETY complex set of “shoulds” and “should nots.”
    referred to this drive as the tyranny of the
    should.
    Parents often dominate, neglect, overprotect, reject, or ● neurotic ambition, that is, the compulsive drive
    overindulge. If parents do not satisfy the child’s needs toward superiority.
    for safety and satisfaction;
    PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIAL THEORY: KAREN HORNEY COURSE CODE

    SECOND SEMESTER | ACADEMIC YEAR: 2023-2024 | JENICKA JUNI

    ● drive toward a vindictive triumph, the most


    destructive element of all. The need for a
    vindictive triumph may be 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; or to attain the power to
    inflict suffering on them—mostly of a humiliating
    kind”
    b) Neurotic Claims - Believing that something is
    wrong with the outside world, they proclaim that
    they are special and therefore entitled to be
    treated in accordance with their idealized view
    of themselves.
    c) Neurotic Pride - a false pride based not on a
    realistic view of the true self but on a spurious
    image of the idealized self.

    Self-Hatred - their real self does not match the


    insatiable demands of their idealized self, they will begin
    to hate and despise themselves.

    ● relentless demands on the self - which are


    exemplified by the tyranny of the should, some
    people make demands on themselves that don’t
    stop even when they achieve a measure of
    success.
    ● merciless self-accusation - Neurotics constantly
    berate themselves. “If people only knew me,
    they would realize that I’m pretending to be
    knowledgeable, competent, and sincere. I’m
    really a fraud, but no one knows it but me.”
    ● self-contempt - which might be expressed as
    belittling, disparaging, doubting, discrediting,
    and ridiculing oneself.
    ● self-frustration - postponing or forgoing
    pleasurable activities in order to achieve
    reasonable goals.
    ● self-torment, or self-torture - to inflict harm or
    suffering on themselves. Some people attain
    masochistic satisfaction by anguishing over a
    decision, exaggerating the pain of a headache,
    cutting themselves with a knife, starting a fight
    that they are sure to lose, or inviting physical
    abuse.
    ● self-destructive actions and impulses - which
    may be either physical or psychological,
    conscious or unconscious, acute or chronic,
    carried out in action or enacted only in the
    imagination. Overeating, abusing alcohol and
    other drugs, working too hard, driving recklessly,
    and suicide are common expressions of physical
    self-destruction.

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