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Date Posted: 21:16:02 01/31/07 Wed
Author: Jeff Osborne
Subject: Post #2

Chapter Two briefly mentioned the views of Karen Horney. Just out of curiousity I decided to look into her a bit more. She was known to be a critic of Freud because his works may be biased due to a male dominated society. She also mentioned something which I found somewhat interesting when applied to adolescents. Horney discusses the theory of self in which we have two views of our self, the ideal self and the real self. She believed that it is this split self that is responsible for a form of neurosis in which one is never able to actualize his or her potential because he or she is stuggling reconcile the differences between the two selves. The individual is unable to accept the true self and let go of the self he or she "should be."

This is a simple description of what she postulated in the theory of self, but I think it carries some weight when applied to adolescent psychology. In my particular case, as a middle school teacher, I commonly find myself saying that I wish a particular student would just be themself and quit trying to be something or someone they are not. This child, may be continually striving to be the ideal self as opposed to the real self and the effects of this quest for the ideal self may be manifested in other ways (i.e. Behavior).

I hope this made sense to everyone else. Its an interesting theory if you have time to read it all. There are all kinds of sites on Karen Horney if you Google her, but wikipedia has a pretty good entry for her and her works.

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