FEMININE PSYCHOLOGY

by Karen Horney ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 1, 1967

Karen Horney, when she sat at Freud's feet in Vienna, was thirty years his Junior, and a woman. She rose to lead as well as follow, taking issue with Freud in important instances. She herself felt that he was a pessimist, she an optimist, and it is her ""growth-oriented, life affirming, freedom-seeking philosophy"" as expressed in her probing of the feminine psyche that editor Harold Kelman, M.D., comments upon here. Following his introduction are early papers from Dr. Horney on such subjects as ""The Flight from Womanhood,"" ""The Problem of the Monogamous Ideal,"" ""The Dread of Woman,"" ""Distrust between the Sexes,"" ""Premenstrual Tensions,"" ""Female Masochism."" Horney counters Freud's dominant male orientation with its assumption of penis-envy and the desire to be a man with motherhood and its joys, of which he never takes account. (She attributes the desire to take the masculine role as a flight from the love of the father.) This is reading at a professional level of interest and expression, which will be of interest to the prepared lay reader es well.

Pub Date: May 1, 1967

ISBN: 0393310809

Page Count: -

Publisher: Norton

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1967

Categories: NONFICTION