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Karen Horney
(1885~1952)
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Contents.
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Her Life
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Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality
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Anxiety & Mechanism of Defense
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Personality Development
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Ways to Evaluate Characteristic
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Application of Personality Theory
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Self Theory
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Feminine Psychology
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Discussion
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Her Life
¡ß Born in Hamburg, Germany in 1885 as a daughter of
Berndt Wackels Danielsen and Clotilde van Ronzelen(2nd wife)
¡ß Father Mother
- Ships captain - Open-minded
- Conservative, traditional thinking - Easy-going
- Strict
¡ß Father held his son also named Berndt in higher regard
¡æ Felt deprived of her father`s affection, became attached to her mother.
¡ß Childhood
- Crushed on a boy, but he disliked her affection
- First depression of her life
¡æ ambitious and rebellious woman, being intellectual
¡ß Mother left Berndt with Karen in 1¡¦(»ý·«)
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atrist until her death in 1952
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Her Life
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¡ß Freud¡¯s two conflicting central desires:
- Life instinct(libido) (survival, propagation, hunger, thirst, and sex)
- Death instinct(thanatos).
¡æ explaining the process of forming of personality based on biological instincts
¡æ Human development = Modification of instincts
¡ß Karen Horney : receptive to Freud, but also criticized some key reliefs
- Human is motivated by need for affection or safe, not by modification of instincts.
¡æ Cultural factors and social relations influencing on human¡¯s personality
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Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality
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¡ß Fundamental Anxiety
- Human basic challenge = Effective relationship
- originates from instability of relationship
¡°Solitude and helplessness digging into all aspects,
out of awareness in hostile world¡±
¡æ In hostile environment, children use self-defense mechanism to protect oneself.
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