anxiety

neurosis

rationalization

woman

nationality

German

American

occupation / innovator as

psychiatrist

scientific organization

German Psychoanalytical Society

psychoanalyst

New York Psychoanalytic Society

is a feeling of being small, insignificant, helpless, deserted or endangered in a world that is out to abuse, cheat, humiliate, betray, envy.

Basic anxiety can be roughly described as a feeling of being small, insignificant, helpless, deserted or endangered in a world that is out to abuse, cheat, humiliate, betray, envy... . And special in this is the child's feeling that the parents' love, their Christian charity, honesty, generosity ... may be only a pretense.

is the feeling of being caught in a cellar with many doors, all leading only into new darkness while others are walking outside in sunshine.

Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.

is the object of womb envy, or the ability to have children, which men compensate for by striving for achievement and success in other realms.

She countered Freud's concept of penis envy with what she called womb envy, or man's envy of woman's ability to bear children. She argued that men compensate for this inability by striving for achievement and success in other realms.'

Karen Horney

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