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: d r a f t : Karen Horney is viewed at as the mother of psychoanalysis. She contributed a great part of what is known today as psychoanalytic theory. She was influenced by Sigmund Freud’s writings, but she felt that his arguments didn’t satisfactorily explain many important issues dealing with female sexuality, and therefore she didn’t agree with a lot of his ideas. Because of this, part of Horney’s theory is known as Neo-Freudianism. Her studies revolve mainly around female sexuality, but also touch base on feminine psychology, and mature theory. In The Distrust between the Sexes, Horney points out several factors that lead to the distrust between men and women. In this writing, she says that she is concerned with pointing out several psychological reasons for the distrust between the sexes. So she begins with comparing a husband and wife relationship to that of a parent and child relationship. She explains how she believes that a lot of the distrust men and women have toward each other, husbands and wives in particular, are deeply rooted to their childhood experiences. According to her biography on the Personal Theories website, Horney felt her father ignored her, and favored her older brother, Berndt, over her. For this reason, I think her reasoning for believing that childhood experiences are a reason why men and women have distrust for one another are partly based on her own experiences.
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