Basic anxiety can be roughly described as a feeling of being small, insignificant, helpless, deserted or endangered in a world that is out to abuse, cheat, humiliate, betray, envy... . And special in this is the child's feeling that the… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
“The fact that compulsive drives for success will arise only in a competitive culture does not make them any less neurotic.” — Karen Horney Copy Share
It would not be going too far to assert that ... conflict confronts every woman who ventures upon a career of her own and… — Karen Horney Copy Share
Life as a therapist is ruthless; circumstances that are helpful to one neurotic may crush another. — Karen Horney Copy Share
There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live. — Karen Horney Copy Share
“For the analyst it is a source of never-ending astonishment how comparatively well a person can function with the core of himself not participating.” — Karen Horney Copy Share
The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the masculine tendency… — Karen Horney Copy Share
When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of… — Karen Horney Copy Share
“The tenacity with which the neurotic adheres to any attitude is a sure indication that the attitude fulfills functions which seem indispensable in the… — Karen Horney Copy Share
Through the eclipse of large areas of the self, by repression and inhibition as well as by idealization and externalization, the individual loses sight… — Karen Horney Copy Share
“The pride in intellect, or rather in the supremacy of the mind, is not restricted to those engaged in intellectual pursuits but is a… — Karen Horney Copy Share
Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a… — Karen Horney Copy Share
