Frases de Karen Horney
Karen Horney
Data de nascimento: 16. Setembro 1885
Data de falecimento: 4. Dezembro 1952
Karen Horney foi uma psicanalista alemã que trabalhou nos Estados Unidos últimos anos de sua carreira. Suas teorias questionavam algumas visões tradicionais freudianas, especialmente as suas teorias acerca da sexualidade e da orientação instintiva da psicanálise. A ela é creditada a criação da psicologia feminista em resposta a teoria de Freud da inveja do pênis. Ela discordava de Freud sobre as diferenças inerentes à psicologia de homens e mulheres, e as atribuía a diferenças sociais e culturais e não à biologia. Por esse motivo, ela é muitas vezes classificada como neo-freudiana.
Citações Karen Horney
„If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride“
— Karen Horney, Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Towards Self-Realization
„Whether we forget something we are not proud of, or embellish it, or blame somebody else, we want to save face by not owning up to shortcomings.“
— Karen Horney, Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Towards Self-Realization
„Pride in many diverse ways is the enemy of love.“
— Karen Horney, Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Towards Self-Realization
„Patients coming for consultation complain about headaches, sexual disturbances, inhibitions in work, or other symptoms; as a rule, they do not complain about having lost touch with the core of their psychic existence.“
— Karen Horney, Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Towards Self-Realization
„Also the natural sexual functions of establishing an intimate human contact frequently assume greater proportions. This is a well known fact about detached people for whom sexuality may be the only bridge to others, but it is not restricted to being an obvious substitute for human closeness. It shows also in the haste with which people may rush into sexual relations, without giving themselves a chance to find out whether they have anything in common or a chance to develop a liking and understanding. It is possible of course that an emotional relatedness may evolve later on. But more often than not it does not do so because usually the initial rush itself is a sign of their being too inhibited to develop a good human relationship.“
— Karen Horney, Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Towards Self-Realization
