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Karen Horney [1885-1952] American
Rank: 101
Psychologist, Psychoanalyst


Karen Horney was a German psychoanalyst who practiced in the United States during her later career. Her theories questioned some traditional Freudian views. 

Life, Men, Women, Experience



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The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men. Men, Women
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Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.
102
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. Experience, Men, Women
103
Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. Life
104
Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.
105
Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.
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The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
107
Until I feel strong enough to pray sincerely and to act accordingly, I would rather not pray at all.
108
Why is it so unutterably beneficial, the thought that someone besides myself knows me?
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Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. Life
110
The searching for our selves is the most agonizing, isn't it? - and yet the most stimulating - and one simply cannot escape it.
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