The Neurotic Personality Of Our Time

Karen Horney

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781136341649
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Topics range from the neurotic need for affection, to guilt feelings and the quest for power, prestige and possession. First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Index

· Index ·

ABRAHAM, KARL, 124, 234

Accusations, inhibitions raising, 247 ff.; and authority of parents, 247 ff.; and basic anxiety, 252 ff.; and neurotic suffering, 255 ff., 264

ADLER, A., 186, 187

Admiration, and tendencies to humiliate, 179 ff.; as disguise of tendencies to defeat, 201; and hero worship, 201 ff.

Affection, craving for, indicator of neurosis, 105; need for, and homosexuality, 119; child’s need for versus neurotic, 123 ff.; insatiability in neurotic need for, 123 ff.; difficulties of getting, 134; and fear of rejection, 137; means of getting, 139 ff.; need for and sexuality need for, and anxiety, 151; neurotic need for and compulsory masturbation, 153; and compulsory sexual relations, 152

Aggression, feeling of being imposed, 38

ALEXANDER, F., 20, 30, 245

Ambition, neurotic, 165; in adolescence, 191 ff.; excessive, in neurotics, 208 ff.; versus affection, 208 ff.; and self-belittling tendencies, 220 ff.

Anal-eroticism, discussion of, 149, 187, 280; and economies, 282

Anatomical sexual differences, and jealousy, 17

Angst der Kreatur, 94

Anthropology, 16; rediscovering the normal, 16; emphasis on differences in culture, 16; modifying our attitude on human nature, 18

Anxiety, its central role in neuroses, 23; versus fear, 41; in primitives, 43; cure of, 44; rationalization of, 48; denial of, 49; and compulsive masturbation, 52; and sexual activities, 52; and impairment of functions, 57; and dislikes, 58; ultimate cause of inhibitions, 59; characteristics of, 60; and social taboos, 62; its causes, 63; and repression of hostility, 69; and helplessness, 70, 96; displacement of, 72; and hostility, mutual reinforcement, 74; Freud’s concept of, 75 ff., 77, 78, 88; therapeutically important questions, 77; in childhood, 88; and compulsiveness, 104; and greediness, 125 ff.; and need for affection, 151; and neurotic competitiveness, 196; as outcome of neurotic competitiveness, 207, 210; and fear of failure, 210; and fear of success, 210; and fear of disapproval, 240

Attitudes, concerning murder, 18;...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• Introduction
• I. Cultural and Psychological Implications of Neuroses
• II. Reasons for Speaking of a “Neurotic Personality of Our Time”
• III. Anxiety
• IV. Anxiety and Hostility
• V. The Basic Structure of Neuroses
• VI. The Neurotic Need for Affection
• VII. Further Characteristics of the Neurotic Need for Affection
• VIII. Ways of Getting Affection and Sensitivity to Rejection
• IX. The Role of Sexuality in the Neurotic Need for Affection
• X. The Quest for Power, Prestige and Possession
• XI. Neurotic Competitiveness
• XII. Recoiling from Competition
• XIII. Neurotic Guilt Feelings
• XIV. The Meaning of Neurotic Suffering (The Problem of Masochism)
• XV. Culture and Neurosis
• Index