Beyond Genetics
(Karen Horney’s Views on the Psychological Differences Between Men and Women)
Imagine you’re in the delivery room, prepared to give birth for the first time. You’re expecting fraternal twins; Hazel and Harvey. From the time that they are born into this world and each year that they age, you have to learn and adjust to each of their needs. When they are an infant, to toddler, teenager and then adult raising both your twins is a challenge due to their different genders. It’s not a surprise that women and men look differently physically, but emotionally and mentally women and men differ as well. Karen Horney, a German psychoanalyst, developed theories on psychology. As a young child she resented her father, but was very close with her older brother and her mother. Later in life she married, and had three girls. Although, when her brother and mother died her depression issue increased, which caused her to leave …show more content…
All children need feelings of safety and security, but these can be gained only by love from parents. “Unfortunately, parents often neglect, dominate, reject, or overindulge their children, conditions that lead to the child’s feelings of basic hostility toward parents,” as stated on page 316. If children repress feelings of basic hostility, they will develop feelings of insecurity and a sense of apprehension called basic anxiety is basically what Karen wrote in her essay. Epstein added on to that by stating, “People can protect themselves from basic anxiety through a number of protective devices, including (1) affection, (2) submissiveness, (3) power, prestige, or possession, and (4) withdrawal.” Many people have the ability to use each of these approaches, but others don’t causing them to be neurotic because they only rely on one. Obviously, Karen describes how the differences contribute toward
(Karen Horney’s Views on the Psychological Differences Between Men and Women)
Imagine you’re in the delivery room, prepared to give birth for the first time. You’re expecting fraternal twins; Hazel and Harvey. From the time that they are born into this world and each year that they age, you have to learn and adjust to each of their needs. When they are an infant, to toddler, teenager and then adult raising both your twins is a challenge due to their different genders. It’s not a surprise that women and men look differently physically, but emotionally and mentally women and men differ as well. Karen Horney, a German psychoanalyst, developed theories on psychology. As a young child she resented her father, but was very close with her older brother and her mother. Later in life she married, and had three girls. Although, when her brother and mother died her depression issue increased, which caused her to leave …show more content…
All children need feelings of safety and security, but these can be gained only by love from parents. “Unfortunately, parents often neglect, dominate, reject, or overindulge their children, conditions that lead to the child’s feelings of basic hostility toward parents,” as stated on page 316. If children repress feelings of basic hostility, they will develop feelings of insecurity and a sense of apprehension called basic anxiety is basically what Karen wrote in her essay. Epstein added on to that by stating, “People can protect themselves from basic anxiety through a number of protective devices, including (1) affection, (2) submissiveness, (3) power, prestige, or possession, and (4) withdrawal.” Many people have the ability to use each of these approaches, but others don’t causing them to be neurotic because they only rely on one. Obviously, Karen describes how the differences contribute toward