Penis envy

Abstract This paper will discuss the life and teachings of Karen Horney. The purpose of this paper is for one to learn about Horney’s life and her contributions to the field. Karen was largely known for her Neo-Freudian perspective. The following will discuss Horney’s Social and Cultural Psychoanalytic Theory. Karen was also one of the first feminist psychologists and greatly affected the beliefs of female psychology. Without Karen Horney’s studies and theories on female psychology and…

Freud's theory suggests that girls in the phallic stage believe that they have been castrated due to the lack of penis and blame their mothers for this which causes hostility with the mother. Girls at this age are scared of loosing the love from their mother so they repress the romantic feelings for their father and identify with their mother ensuring the love from…

Horney: 1. What do you think Freud "just didn't get" about the psychology of women? I disagreed with Freud’s views of women. Freud felt strongly that women had “penis envy”, and were jealous of the simple fact that men had a penis. Freud believed that because of this, women were inferior to men. I disagreed, and introduced my own concept, “Womb envy” (Shultz &Shultz, 2009). If anyone had a reason to be envious, it was men, for their inability to bare children. Freud also believed that males and…

factor in gender roles, Horney believed that both biology and cultural, impact one’s personality. However, Horney pushes biology toward the back burner and mainly focuses on culture and societal pressures. In his studies, Freud developed the view of penis envy, that due to biology, women felt inferior to men. However, Horney was determined to show that, “females have intrinsic biological constitutions,” which are not a sole, “product of [females] differences from males,” (Paris 2000). It was a…

1932). Freud believed that women had poor superegos and suffered “penis envy”. He suggested that women were resentful of men for having a penis and felt inferior. Horney rebutted this claim by saying men suffered from “womb envy”. The degree to how a man is driven to succeed may simply be a substitute for the fact that they are not able to carry, nurture and bear children. They were jealous of the woman’s ability to have a child. Womb envy is created unconsciously to make women feel inferior.…

solely center on if the child has a penis. If the child has a penis the infant is considered a boy if the infant lacks a penis then the infant is considered a girl. At a round the age of four or five, the theory goes, the discipline and autonomy threaten a boy his father demands of him. Fantasizing that the father wishes to remove his penis. The boy recognizes the father as a rival for the affections of his mother. Girls on the other hand suffer from “penis envy” because they do not possess the…

see women being celebrated as frail, delicate creatures whose reproductive organs are the source of every illness. Later, women are descended upon by psychologists and deemed too dangerous to run a family, having what expert Sigmund Freud calls, penis envy, and ambition compelling them to end their child’s life. Mothers were considered the heart of the home for their childrearing powers, then considered too weak to raise their own sons.…

that men envy us or that we envy them (95). I believe that we always think that the grass is greener on the other side. I have had many female friends say, if I was only a man I could…. But the truth is that we can. We as mammals have been evolving since the first day of our existence until now. I believe that it is possible that in the beginning men were larger in stature and muscle mass and we relied on them to protect us. I believe that this is where we began. Penis envy and womb envy…

In the history of science, especially psychology, there have been many great minds that have shaped the theories we still use today; These people’s theories are usually still taught in classrooms around the world. However, it is not to often that you come across someone who can be extremely controversial, and still be regarded as noteworthy. Sigmund Freud, while in recent years has come to be somewhat infamous in psychological circles, was and still is, regarded as one of the first real…

In psychology, we come to discover that there are four major theories for personality: psychodynamic, trait/ five factor model, humanistic, and social-cognitive. In Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalytic theory, Psychic Determination is when we have no control over our actions because our unconscious mind chooses for us. Symbolic Meaning is when every single action we make has a meaning. Unconscious Motivation is when we rarely understand the reasons behind our behavior, and come up with reasons to…