Horney, Karen Clementine - Critical Response
Feminist theory arguments
From Horney's earliest (feminist) arguments against Freudian thought and through the development of her own theories, she was embroiled in controversy. In many ways, this controversy was a product of Horney's interpersonal style. She took on, at one time or another throughout her career, nearly every other luminary of psychotherapy that shared her time in history. Obviously the disagreements she became involved in with Freud and his disciple Karl Abraham from 1920 on were the first shots fired in what would come to be for Horney a long, long war. In 1926, she was asked to write an essay as part of a book honoring Sigmund Freud on his 70th birthday. Horney started with a brief complimentary recognition of his penis envy theory, but quickly went on the attack. She quoted Simmel's...
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