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Chapter 5
Basic anxiety
Persistent feelings of loneliness and helplessness, the foundation of neurosis
Womb envy
Male envy of women's ability to bear and nurse children
Feminine Psychology
Women seen as potentially equal
Katherine Horney
Feminine Psychology
Katherine Horney
Feminine Psychology
Basic evil
Negative environmental factors that cause insecurity
Basic Hostility
Persistent feeling of anger towards parents because security needs aren't met
Neurotic needs/trends
Defense attitudes that become exaggerated inappropriate striving
Moving toward
compliance
Moving against
hostility
Moving away
detachment
Self-effacing
Appeal to be loved
Self-expansive
Attempt at mastery
Resignation
Desire to be free of others
Real self
Who we are, what is true about us
Idealized self
Idealized picture of oneself, what we think we "should" be
Tyranny of the shoulds
Attempts to reach an attainable ideal by doing what you think you "should" do
Hypercompetitiveness
Desire to complete and win to believe we are worthy
Eric Fromm
Escape mechanisms
Authoritarianism
Either let others dominate or try to dominate others
Symbiosis
Union of self with another person/outside power
Destructiveness
Destroying others/outside world
Automation conformity
Cease to be an individual; adopt personality types accepted by culture
Relatedness
Relating to other people and loving productively
Transcendence
Rising above the animal level of creatureliness and becoming active creators
Rootedness
Feeling that we belong
Sense of identity
Becoming aware of ourselves as separate and unique individuals
Frame of orientation and object of devotion
Person or object of drive
Excitation and stimulation
Actively striving for a goal rather than simply responding
Excitation and stimulation
Actively striving for a goal rather than simply responding
Receptive
unproductive
Exploitive
unproductive
Hoarding
unproductive
Marketing
unproductive