Karen Horney

In Horney’s book, New Ways In Psychoanalysis she significantly widened the limitations of Sigmund Freud’s theories and prepared the theories to be obtainable to a wide-ranging public. Freud is considered the father of psychology and psychoanalysis. His theories are based on sexual instincts rather than biological. In Horney’s book she disagrees with Freud’s libido theory, views and emphasis of childhood, and female masochism. Horney emphasized the significance of communal, educational, and gender aspects in human maturity, disagreeing on Freud’s focus on sexual disagreement as the origin of neurosis. Horney says, “Sexual problems, although they may sometimes prevail in the symptomatic picture, are no longer considered to be in the dynamic center of neuroses. Sexual difficulties are the effect rather than the cause of the neurotic character structure” (Horney p.10). These will be the three points discussed in the paper. It is important to know that she did base her beliefs...