PSY 505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Karen Horney, Penis Envy, Feminine Psychology
31 Mar 2016
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The personality inherently tends toward constructive development and growth. Inherent drive and capacity to grow and develop potential to the fullest. Little attention paid to structural elements or developmental principles; most attention paid to psychodynamics of personality. Three aspects of the idealized self: neurotic search for glory, tyranny of shoulds, neurotic claims, neurotic pride. The force which urges the individual in the direction of growth and self- fulfillment. The self one can become if all the potentialities are developed. The person as he consciously acts in daily life. Neurotics have a large discrepancy between their idealized and actual self. Factors in the parent child relationship that can give rise to basic hostility and anxiety. Having to take sides in parental disagreements. Lack of respect for the child"s individual needs. Too much admiration or the absence of it. Dynamics/development of personality: basic hostility and basic anxiety. Mature personality is shaped by childhood experiences but the personality is capable of change.
