PSY230H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Karen Horney, Carl Jung, Erik Erikson
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Psychoanalytic view of hate: sigmund freud; A death instinct that everyone has thanatos leaning towards self-destructive behaviors. Defense mechanisms explained behavior of killers in a social context e. g. reaction formation, displacement, projection. Neo-analytic views of hate: carl jung. Extraversion-thinking type stubborn, intolerant: alfred adler and karen horney. Adler emphasized coping with rejection i. e. rejected start to see world as inhospitable and so they may overcompensate by developing a superiority complex which can lead to aggression. According to horney, children need to feel safe and failure to provide this environment undermines security leading to neurosis. They start to think that only the cruel survive a(cid:374)d prosper a(cid:374)d start to (cid:862)mo(cid:448)e agai(cid:374)st(cid:863: erik erikson. Aggression appeared in early childhood owing to inadequate trust, hostile treatment, and initiative thwarting failure to develop a superego. Loss of identity an explanation of the actions of terrorist groups. Likelihood of evil is minimized when society produces fewer people prone to evil.
