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Neurotic needs as coping strategies
COMPLIANCE
If I help you, you won’t leave
Moving-TOWARD
Self-effacement
Basic anxiety
Restrict one's life to narrow borders
Need for Affection
Need for Approval
I should
Be sweet, self-sacrificing, saintly
WITHDRAWAL
Moving-AWAY
Resigning solution
Need for perfection and unassailability
Need for self-sufficiency and independence
"I should be independent, aloof, perfect."
AGGRESSION
Moving-AGAINST
Expansive solution
Basic hostility
Need for Power, for control over others.
Social recognition or prestige
Fear of being used, of looking stupid
Exploit others and get the better of them
Need for Personal admiration
Need for Personal achievement
"I should be powerful, recognized, a winner."
Creates an ideal self out of these "shoulds
Since ideal self is ultimately impossible
The neurotic swings between
a feeling of arrogant omnipotence and of being the scum of the earth
(Horney, 1950, p. 188)
Hating themselves - Despised self
⇆
Pretending to be perfect - Ideal self
Ideal self is created in times of great anxiety and unfulfiled needs – the scared mind say “if I were this way, then I wouldn’t have been hurt or left alone.
(Ideal self) Compulsion ⇠⇢ Spontaneity (Real self)
Source:
https://myweb.rollins.edu/jsiry/NeurosisGrowth.html#contents
Webspace. "Karen Horney." Webspace, n.d., https://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/horney.html
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