PSY 216 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Karen Horney, The Need, Dream Interpretation
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Built on the assumption that social and cultural conditions, especially childhood experiences, are largely responsible for shaping personality. Her views on personality are a reflection of her life experiences had several love affairs, idolized her mother, was the youngest child, felt unwanted and unloved, did not get along with father. Modern culture is based on competition among individuals. Society contradicts itself which leads to intrapsychic conflict. Believes everyone begins life with the potential for healthy development, but people need favorable conditions for growth. Culture and society are responsible for psychological difference between men and women. Hostility develops if parents do not satisfy the child"s needs for safety and satisfaction. Children usually repress their hostility toward their parents and have no awareness of it. Repressed hostility then leads to profound feelings of insecurity and a vague sense of apprehension. Basic anxiety is defined as feeling isolated and helpless in a world conceived as potentially hostile.
