Karen Horney Quotes

Karen Horney — American Psychologist born on September 16, 1885,

Karen Horney was a German psychoanalyst who practiced in the United States during her later career. Her theories questioned some traditional Freudian views. This was particularly true of her theories of sexuality and of the instinct orientation of psychoanalysis. She is credited with founding feminist psychology in response to Freud's theory of penis envy. She disagreed with Freud about inherent differences in the psychology of men and women, and she traced such differences to society and culture rather than biology. As such, she is often classified as Neo-Freudian... (wikipedia)

Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.

When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of the intensity of this envy of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, as well as of breasts and of the act of suckling.

Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

Why is it so unutterably beneficial, the thought that someone besides myself knows me?