Psych Final Exam
Karen Horney (neo Freudian)
-development of women (radical theory) feminist psychologist
-criticize Freud’s for being arelational
-kicked out from psychoanalytic practice
-challenges Freud
Her views:
We are born with real self (innate) drive to realization; how does th real self fit with the environment ; need for security (security, warmth, freedom to express one self, guidance and limits
* If poor fit with the environment, the kids need for security grow, if the need for security is not fulfilled, the kid develop a core basic anxiety. If the kids live this way they have stress, and when stressed kids
1) move toward people who love them
2) against people who are manipulative
3) withdraw from the world by avoiding
People only rigidly chooses (1 out of the 3 way) – then you start to alienate from your real needs (real self). If there’s a difference between the person you create and the real self, you create the “idealized self”
Symptoms:
Comprehensive Neurotic solution: Need for Perfection
Neurotic Ambition- type A personality (work all day)
Vindictive Triumph –vengeful people
Karen Horney challenges Freud:
Views of women
Basic anxiety over Instinct
Environmental factors
Freud was too pessimistic – there are things to look forward in life
Freud over emphasized childhood
Don’t need Oedipal struggle to develop morality- children can model themselves after both parents
Oedipus/ Electra Complex is wrong:
Children both envy and are interested naturally in opposite child’s genitals but do not desire in neurotic ways
Girls do not change their area of pleasure and do not change their love from mother to father
Gender Socialization, Feminist Psychology and Relationships
Nancy Chodrow – different socialization pathways for males and females and the injuries of boys and girls
Infantile dependence: Female connect with mother until age 9 Male disconnect with mother at age 3
(at age 2, boys get pushed away
-development of women (radical theory) feminist psychologist
-criticize Freud’s for being arelational
-kicked out from psychoanalytic practice
-challenges Freud
Her views:
We are born with real self (innate) drive to realization; how does th real self fit with the environment ; need for security (security, warmth, freedom to express one self, guidance and limits
* If poor fit with the environment, the kids need for security grow, if the need for security is not fulfilled, the kid develop a core basic anxiety. If the kids live this way they have stress, and when stressed kids
1) move toward people who love them
2) against people who are manipulative
3) withdraw from the world by avoiding
People only rigidly chooses (1 out of the 3 way) – then you start to alienate from your real needs (real self). If there’s a difference between the person you create and the real self, you create the “idealized self”
Symptoms:
Comprehensive Neurotic solution: Need for Perfection
Neurotic Ambition- type A personality (work all day)
Vindictive Triumph –vengeful people
Karen Horney challenges Freud:
Views of women
Basic anxiety over Instinct
Environmental factors
Freud was too pessimistic – there are things to look forward in life
Freud over emphasized childhood
Don’t need Oedipal struggle to develop morality- children can model themselves after both parents
Oedipus/ Electra Complex is wrong:
Children both envy and are interested naturally in opposite child’s genitals but do not desire in neurotic ways
Girls do not change their area of pleasure and do not change their love from mother to father
Gender Socialization, Feminist Psychology and Relationships
Nancy Chodrow – different socialization pathways for males and females and the injuries of boys and girls
Infantile dependence: Female connect with mother until age 9 Male disconnect with mother at age 3
(at age 2, boys get pushed away