CHAPTER 6: Karen Horney "Psychoanalytic Social Theory"

Question 1

According to Karen Horney, the presence of ____ and ____ conditions especially childhood experiences, are largely responsible for shaping personality.

Answer 1

society and culture

Question 2

Society and Culture is the main point of ______ Theory of Horney.

Answer 2

Psychoanalytic Social Theory

Question 3

Three (3) fundamental styles of relating to others
(NEUROTIC TRENDS)

Answer 3

1. Moving toward people
2. Moving against people
3. Moving away from people

Question 4

The clash that occurs between opposing neurotic needs, such as the excessive need for power & independence. It takes the form of either an idealized self-image or self-hatred.

Answer 4

Intrapsychic Conflict

Question 5

Idealized self-image is expressed as:
1.
2.
3.

Answer 5

1. Neurotic search for glory
2. Neurotic claims
3. Neurotic pride

Question 6

The concept says that the inferiority of women is not a biological predisposition, but rather because of social and cultural expectations.

Answer 6

Feminine Psychology

Question 7

Karen Horney was born on

Answer 7

Hamburg, Germany

Question 8

In ___ (year), Horney became part of the First Women to study medicine in Germany.

Answer 8

1906

Question 9

She believed that culture, not anatomy was responsible for psychic differences between men and women.

Answer 9

Karen Horney

Question 10

According to Horney, early childhood experiences are important, but more so are ____ & ____ than sex.

Answer 10

safety and security

Question 11

Horney’s view is ___ rather than pessimistic (centered on cultural forces that are amenable to change).

Answer 11

optimistic

Question 12

If parents do not satisfy the child’s need for safety and satisfaction, the child develops feelings of ___ toward the parents.

Answer 12

Basic hostility

Question 13

Repressed hostility then leads to profound feelings of insecurity and a vague sense of apprehension called?

Answer 13

Basic anxiety

Question 14

Four (4) ways to protect self from the hostile world

Answer 14

1. Affection
2. Submission
3. Power (Domination)
4. Withdrawal

Question 15

WAYS OF PROTECTING SELF AGAINST HOSTILE WORLD:

Not always leading to authentic love, but purchased through self-effacing compromise or material goods.

Answer 15

Affection

Question 16

WAYS OF PROTECTING SELF AGAINST HOSTILE WORLD:

_____ to people or institutions to gain affection

Answer 16

Submission

Question 17

WAYS OF PROTECTING SELF AGAINST HOSTILE WORLD:

Defense against real or imagined hostility of others, and the tendency to dominate.

Answer 17

Power (Domination)

Question 18

WAYS OF PROTECTING SELF AGAINST HOSTILE WORLD:

Two (2) types of Power; explain.

Answer 18

1. Prestige - to exploit others
2. Possession - tendency to deprive people

Question 19

WAYS OF PROTECTING SELF AGAINST HOSTILE WORLD:

Developing independence and detachment

Answer 19

Withdrawal

Question 20

The go-to response of individuals going through basic anxiety

Answer 20

Neurotic needs

Question 21

NEUROTIC NEEDS

Attempt indiscriminately to please others. They try to live up to the expectations of others; and dread self-assertion.

Answer 21

Neurotic need for possession and approval

Question 22

NEUROTIC NEEDS

Attach themselves to a powerful partner. This need includes an overvaluation of love and a dread of being alone or deserted.

Answer 22

Neurotic need for a powerful partner

Question 23

NEUROTIC NEEDS

“Humiliate someone”. They downgrade their abilities and dread making demands on others.

Answer 23

Neurotic need to restrict one’s life within narrow borders

Question 24

NEUROTIC NEEDS

The need for power is usually combined with the need for prestige and possession. Manifests itself as the need to control others and to avoid feelings of weakness or stupidity.

Answer 24

Neurotic need for power

Question 25

NEUROTIC NEEDS

Neurotics frequently evaluate others based on how they can be used or exploited, but at the same time, they fear being exploited by others.

Answer 25

Neurotic need to exploit others

Question 26

NEUROTIC NEEDS

Some people combat basic anxiety by trying to be first, to be important, or to attract attention to themselves.

Answer 26

Neurotic for social recognition and prestige

Question 27

NEUROTIC NEEDS

“Think too much about themselves or above others”. Their inflated self-esteem must be continually fed by the admiration and approval of others.

Answer 27

Neurotic need for personal admiration

Question 28

NEUROTIC NEEDS

They must defeat other people in order to confirm their superiority.

Answer 28

Neurotic need for ambition and personal achievement

Question 29

NEUROTIC NEEDS

Many neurotics have a strong need to move away from people, thereby proving that they can get along without others.

Answer 29

Neurotic need for self-sufficiency and independence

Question 30

NEUROTIC NEEDS

Neurotics relentlessly strive for perfection in attempting to hide their weakness from others.

Answer 30

Neurotic need for perfection and unassailability

Question 31

The coping mechanism or how individuals interact with and perceive other people

Answer 31

Neurotic Trends

Question 32

The neurotic search for glory leads people to unhappiness because they begin to realize that their real self lags way behind their idealized self—despise the real self for being unable to meet their ideals.

Answer 32

Self-hatred

Question 33

It refers to a neurotic need to protect oneself against feelings of helplessness. “Submissiveness and independence”.

Answer 33

Moving Toward People

Question 34

Two (2) neurotic needs of Moving Toward People?

Answer 34

1. desperately strive for the affection and approval of others
2. seek a powerful partner who will take responsibility for their lives

Question 35

Move against others by appearing tough or ruthless. Need to exploit others for own benefit.

Their motivation are: power, prestige, and personal ambition

Answer 35

Moving Against People

Question 36

Solve basic conflict of isolation in a detached manner. This strategy is an expression of the need for privacy, dependency, and self-sufficiency.

Answer 36

Moving Away from People

Question 37

It is how we see or depict ourselves as having god-like qualities. It exists in our personal belief system.

Answer 37

Idealized self-image

Question 38

Comprehensive drive toward actualizing ideal self; self-concept. Incorporating aspects of life, and the tyranny of should.

Answer 38

Neurotic search for glory

Question 39

They proclaim that they are special and therefore entitled to be treated in accordance with their idealized view of themselves.

Answer 39

Neurotic claims

Question 40

False and unrealistic view of the true self but in a spurious image of the image of the idealized self.

Answer 40

Neurotic pride

Question 41

WAYS OF EXPRESSING SELF-HATRED

These people continue to push themselves toward perfection because they believe they should be perfect. Doesn’t stop even when they achieve a measure of success.

Answer 41

Relentless demands on the self

Question 42

WAYS OF EXPRESSING SELF-HATRED

Criticize oneself, berate oneself, take credit for improbable events, and question the virtue of own motivations.

Answer 42

Merciless self-accusation

Question 43

WAYS OF EXPRESSING SELF-HATRED

Belittling, disparaging, doubting, discrediting, and ridiculing oneself.

Answer 43

Self-contempt

Question 44

WAYS OF EXPRESSING SELF-HATRED

It is shackled by taboos against enjoyment

Answer 44

Self-frustration

Question 45

WAYS OF EXPRESSING SELF-HATRED

People’s main intention is to inflict harm or suffering on themselves and attain masochistic satisfaction.

Answer 45

Self-torment or Self-torture

Question 46

WAYS OF EXPRESSING SELF-HATRED

May be either physical or psychological, conscious or unconscious, acute or chronic, carried out in action or enacted only in the imagination.

Answer 46

Self-destructive actions and impulses