Neurosis and Human Growth Towards the end of Karen’s career, she mapped out the super-ego/ideal-self and demonstrated how pathological and inhuman it was. And when a super-ego takes hold of a culture, those inhuman standards are exacted against oneself and policed throughout the public. It can eventually become a normalized way of being, so that […]
Cultural Psychoanalysis: Karen Horney Pt. 11
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