Horney, Karen Clementine - Theories
Horney's Freudian beginnings
No discussion of the philosophy of Horney is possible without first elaborating on the ideas that initially formed her theories—the work of Sigmund Freud. More than Alfred Adler and Carl Jung, whose breaks with Freud in the early twentieth century were well documented and publicized, Horney initially seemed to agree with Freud. It is for this reason that she is so often characterized as being a neo-Freudian, and why Horney would always, even after tremendous differences developed between them, express great appreciation for Freud's ground-breaking discoveries. It was the material that Horney would build on.
Freud discovered that he could bring relief to patients suffering from neurosis by encouraging them to talk with him about their feelings. This free-talking method, called free...
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