Horney ‘s Social & Cultural

Psychoanalysis
 Hypercompetitiveness :unfailing center
of neurosis
 Aim at personal success at any cost
 Enhance one’s feelings of self worth
 Thought of manipulation,
aggressiveness, exploitation
 Abused by parents
DR. NORSUHAILY FSSG
 Etiology of neuroses in family

 Parents adopt values of society

 Attitude & behavior of
hypercompetitiveness parents can
cause disturbed relationship
 Basic anxiety
 Feeling of being isolated & helpless
 Feel freedom is being taken away
DR. NORSUHAILY
 The use of neurotic strategies to cope
with basic anxiety
The neurotic need for a partner who
will take over one’s life
The neurotic need for affection &
approval
The neurotic need to restrict one’s life
w/n narrow borders
The neurotic need for power

DR. NORSUHAILY
 The neurotic need to exploit others
 The neurotic need for social recognition
& prestige
 The neurotic need for personal
admiration
 The neurotic ambition for personal
achievement
 The neurotic need for self sufficiency &
independence
 The neurotic need for perfection &
unassailability
Pn.Azlina
 3 Basic Neurotic Trends
1. Compliant types
 Try to live up to the expectation of others&
cannot accept criticism
2. Aggressive types
 Neurotic needs for power, social recognition
& prestige,exploitation,personal admiration &
achievement
3. Detached types
 Protect themselves by continual avoidance
from others
DR. NORSUHAILY
 Developing the self
The idealized self
Neurotics believe they should be able
to do, know e/thing & like e/one
‘tyranny of the shoulds’
Self idealization does not work when
they measure the actual self
Externalization
 Trying to keep the idealized self intact
 projection
Pn.Azlina
Auxiliary approaches to artificial
harmony

Blind spots
Compartmentalization
Rationalization
Excessive self control
Arbitrary rightness
Elusiveness
Cynicism
DR. NORSUHAILY