Description
Karen Horney , who attracted attention with her original works in the post-Freudian generation, has a relationship with Freud's theory similar to Marx's relationship with Hegel's philosophy: While taking Freud's theory as a basis, she does not refrain from criticizing it, and has a strong influence on the cultural and social aspects that give Freud's views a more humane aspect. Develops an approach that takes into account the effects of differences.
Concentrating on female psychology, Horney brought a different perspective to psychoanalysis by saying, "The main goal is the liberation of the forces that lead people to self-realization," and broke new ground in the literature with her studies on neuroses, which she compiled comprehensively in this work. He revealed the neurotic situations and manifestations of the situation that restrict human energy, the desire for grandeur, the pressure of the ideal self, the tyranny of internal commands, and defined the models that condemn us to lives we do not want with compulsive behaviors instead of realizing ourselves: The expansionist type that puts pressure on the environment, the type that isolates itself from the environment by turning inward, the type that tries to isolate itself from others, the attached type and the detached type who moves away from human relations... Neuroses and Human Development is an authoritative study aimed not only at experts but also at readers investigating the origins of their mental distress.