Karen Horney
Karen Horney
Karen Horneywas a German psychoanalyst who practiced in the United States during her later career. Her theories questioned some traditional Freudian views. This was particularly true of her theories of sexuality and of the instinct orientation of psychoanalysis. She is credited with founding feminist psychology in response to Freud's theory of penis envy. She disagreed with Freud about inherent differences in the psychology of men and women, and she traced such differences to society and culture rather than biology. As...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth16 September 1885
CountryUnited States of America
If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride
Because it corresponds to a vital need, love is overvalued in our culture. It becomes a phantom - like success - carrying with it the illusion that it is a solution for all problems.
a normal human being ... does not exist.
We may feel genuinely concerned about world conditions, though such a concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
There's still such chaos in me. Still so little firmly outlined. Just like my face: a formless mass that only takes on shape through the expression of the moment. The searching for our selves is the most agonizing
To search for truth about self is as valuable as to search for truth in other areas of life.
Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.
Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.
If I couldn't be pretty, I decided I would be smart.
The conception of what is normal varies not only with the culture but also within the same culture, in the course of time.
Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.
Why is it so unutterably beneficial, the thought that someone besides myself knows me?
The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.