Distrust Between the Sexes
In the essay by Karen Horney Distrust between the sexes, Horney delivers a pyschoanalytical argument that ( discovers) compelling argument that (gets at) the depperoted conflict between males and females and to what these problems can be attributed to. She illustrates that these troubles stem from a childhood conflict as a result of a the opposite sex parent disappointing the child and this leading to the ultimate distrust between the sexes. The distrust between sexes Horney attritubes it to a psychological history that will later affect relationships with the opposite sex because of certain expectations that will not be met To begin, Karen Horney presents the origins as to why there is a distrust between the sexes. She attributes that distrust between the sexes is deeply rooted in a childhood conflict.. She states that when a woman is disappointed by her father a parent of an opposite gender, she will forever keep that disappointment with her. While the disappointment may be a small disappointment and gives the example of a little girl and her father. “The little girl who was badly hurt through some great disappointment by her father, will transform her innate instinctual wish to receive from the man, into a vindictive one of taking him by force.” Horney then presents that due to this childhood conflict, …show more content…
Men, she describes, who “have a very positive relationship with women and hold them in a high esteem as human beings...in their formative years” Moreover, men in a sociocultural political context have had different attitudes towards women in both sexual and non-sexual relationships. She gives various examples of Adam and Eve, how “woman appears as the sexual temptress” She says that “these two elements, one born out of resentment, the other out of anxiety have damaged the relationship between the sexes from the earliest times to the
In the essay by Karen Horney Distrust between the sexes, Horney delivers a pyschoanalytical argument that ( discovers) compelling argument that (gets at) the depperoted conflict between males and females and to what these problems can be attributed to. She illustrates that these troubles stem from a childhood conflict as a result of a the opposite sex parent disappointing the child and this leading to the ultimate distrust between the sexes. The distrust between sexes Horney attritubes it to a psychological history that will later affect relationships with the opposite sex because of certain expectations that will not be met To begin, Karen Horney presents the origins as to why there is a distrust between the sexes. She attributes that distrust between the sexes is deeply rooted in a childhood conflict.. She states that when a woman is disappointed by her father a parent of an opposite gender, she will forever keep that disappointment with her. While the disappointment may be a small disappointment and gives the example of a little girl and her father. “The little girl who was badly hurt through some great disappointment by her father, will transform her innate instinctual wish to receive from the man, into a vindictive one of taking him by force.” Horney then presents that due to this childhood conflict, …show more content…
Men, she describes, who “have a very positive relationship with women and hold them in a high esteem as human beings...in their formative years” Moreover, men in a sociocultural political context have had different attitudes towards women in both sexual and non-sexual relationships. She gives various examples of Adam and Eve, how “woman appears as the sexual temptress” She says that “these two elements, one born out of resentment, the other out of anxiety have damaged the relationship between the sexes from the earliest times to the