Karen Horney was the first feminist psychology in the field of psychology in the ages of Sigmund Freud. She said that men and women have instinct biological constitutions that have to be understood by their own terms.
Women have a big difference between men. Of course that is very obvious, their difference in physical and mental and most of all emotional has a big factor in their society. Women should stay at home, take care of the children, and do all the house hold chores. While the men should work outside, feed their family and is the boss or head in a family. I know for that in a fact but then Karen Horney did not totally agree about the status in their society back in their age. So she really studied and did some research about men and women big difference.
Perhaps the most important contribution Karen Horney made to psychodynamic thought was her disagreements with Freud's view of women. Horney was never a student of Freud, but did study his work and eventually taught psychoanalysis at both the Berlin and New York Psychoanalytic Institu
te. After her insistence that Freud's view of the inherent difference between males and females, she agreed to leave the institute and form her own school known as the American Institute for Psychoanalysis. In many ways, Horney was well ahead of her time and although she died before the feminist movement took hold, she was perhaps the theorist who changed the way psychology looked at gender differences. She countered Freud's concept of penis envy with what she called womb envy, or man's envy of woman's ability to bear children. She argued that men compensate for this inability by striving for achievement and success in other realms.
She also disagreed with Freud's belief that males and females were born with inherent differences in their personality. Rather than citing biological differences, she argued for a societal and cultural explanation. In her view, men and women were equal outside of the cultural restrictions often placed on being female. These views, while not well accepted at the time, were used years after her death to help promote gender equality.
Neurosis and Relationships
Horney was also known for her study of neurotic personality. She defined neurosis as a maladaptive and counterproductive way of dealing with relationships. These people are unhappy and desperately seek out relationships in order to feel good abut themselves. Their way of securing these relationships include projections of their own insecurity and neediness which eventually drives others away.
She identified three ways of dealing with the world that are formed by an upbringing in a neurotic family: Moving toward People, Moving against People, and Moving Away From People.
Along with our lesson Miss Barros share us some of her interesting stories regarding her husband. Their petty quarrels that she really won’t miss arguing with his husband. Their differences and their status of relation and how they will deal with their problems equally. She is somewhat with my mom. My mom always argues with my dad when I was still a child but now. They are somewhat divorce but not really in papers, maybe in their own way of showing their love and affection. In other words break-up in marriage. But it's okay. Me and my sibling do undersatand what they are and what our family is going through...
Women have a big difference between men. Of course that is very obvious, their difference in physical and mental and most of all emotional has a big factor in their society. Women should stay at home, take care of the children, and do all the house hold chores. While the men should work outside, feed their family and is the boss or head in a family. I know for that in a fact but then Karen Horney did not totally agree about the status in their society back in their age. So she really studied and did some research about men and women big difference.
Perhaps the most important contribution Karen Horney made to psychodynamic thought was her disagreements with Freud's view of women. Horney was never a student of Freud, but did study his work and eventually taught psychoanalysis at both the Berlin and New York Psychoanalytic Institu
te. After her insistence that Freud's view of the inherent difference between males and females, she agreed to leave the institute and form her own school known as the American Institute for Psychoanalysis. In many ways, Horney was well ahead of her time and although she died before the feminist movement took hold, she was perhaps the theorist who changed the way psychology looked at gender differences. She countered Freud's concept of penis envy with what she called womb envy, or man's envy of woman's ability to bear children. She argued that men compensate for this inability by striving for achievement and success in other realms.She also disagreed with Freud's belief that males and females were born with inherent differences in their personality. Rather than citing biological differences, she argued for a societal and cultural explanation. In her view, men and women were equal outside of the cultural restrictions often placed on being female. These views, while not well accepted at the time, were used years after her death to help promote gender equality.
Neurosis and Relationships
Horney was also known for her study of neurotic personality. She defined neurosis as a maladaptive and counterproductive way of dealing with relationships. These people are unhappy and desperately seek out relationships in order to feel good abut themselves. Their way of securing these relationships include projections of their own insecurity and neediness which eventually drives others away.
She identified three ways of dealing with the world that are formed by an upbringing in a neurotic family: Moving toward People, Moving against People, and Moving Away From People.
Along with our lesson Miss Barros share us some of her interesting stories regarding her husband. Their petty quarrels that she really won’t miss arguing with his husband. Their differences and their status of relation and how they will deal with their problems equally. She is somewhat with my mom. My mom always argues with my dad when I was still a child but now. They are somewhat divorce but not really in papers, maybe in their own way of showing their love and affection. In other words break-up in marriage. But it's okay. Me and my sibling do undersatand what they are and what our family is going through...
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