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PSY 216 Final Review
Karen Horney
Question | Answer |
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basic psychological evil | a parent's inability or unwillingness to love their child appropriately |
What does the psychological evil cause? | causes basic hostility which is repressed and gives rise to basic anxiety |
what is basic anxiety | "a feeling of being isolated and helpless in a world conceived as potentially hostile" |
Four defenses against basic anxiety | affection (buy love) submission (also to get love) power (control) withdrawal (detach to avoid being hurt) |
Neurotic need: affection an approval | lives for good opinion of others and sensitive to rejection |
Neurotic need: a partner to take control | overviews love and afraid of being left alone |
Neurotic need: restricting one's life | narrow borders, values modesty above all, content with little |
Neurotic need: power | controlling, craving power |
Neurotic need: prestige | one's self-evaluation is determined by amount of public recognition received |
Neurotic need: personal admiration | inflated picture of themselves and wish to be admired on the best |
Neurotic need: personal achievement | want to be the very best and drive themselves to greater achievements |
Neurotic need: independence | set themselves apart and refuse to be tied down |
Neurotic need: perfection | fearful of making mistakes and being criticized |
Solutions to basic anxiety: moving toward | compliance. Normal counterpart= friendly, loving |
Solutions to basic anxiety: moving against | aggression. normal counterpart= survives competition |
Solutions to basic anxiety: moving away from | detachment normal counterpart=independent |
despised real self | a false conception based on parental evaluation |
idealized self | as we think we "should be" |
tyranny of the shoulds | "should be able to do this..." |