Karen Horney - Neurotic personality of our time (1937)

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Because it corresponds to a vital need, love is overvalued in our culture. It becomes a phantom — like success — carrying with it the illusion that it is a solution for all problems.

Karen Horney

The neurotic... feels caught in a cellar with many doors, and whichever door he opens leads only into new darkness. And all the time he knows that others are walking outside in sunshine.

Karen Horney

The most comprehensive formulation of therapeutic goals is the striving for wholeheartedness: to be without pretense, to be emotionally sincere, to be able to put the whole of oneself into one's feelings, one's work, one's beliefs.

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Let me say to begin with: It is not neurotic to have conflict... Conflicts within ourselves are an integral part of human life.

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The conception of what is normal varies not only with the culture but also within the same culture, in the course of time.

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Through the eclipse of large areas of the self, by repression and inhibition as well as by idealization and externalization, the individual loses sight of himself; he feels, if he does not actually become, like a shadow without weight and substance.

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