The Unknown Karen Horney: Essays on Gender, Culture, and Psychoanalysis [Hardcover]

Karen Horney (Author), Professor Bernard J. Paris (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 9, 2000

This volume of writings by the distinguished psychoanalyst Karen Horney (1885-1952) completes the publication of her unpublished and uncollected work. It includes pieces on feminine psychology and the relations between the sexes as well as on other aspects of psychoanalytic theory. The editor's introductions set these works in context, showing their significance for Horney's thought and their relation to her other writings. The material in Part 1 provides an important supplement to Feminine Psychology, the book that established Horney as the first great psychoanalytic feminist. It reveals aspects of Horney's early thought not fully developed elsewhere, along with the views about feminine psychology and the relations between the sexes that reflect her later thinking. Part 2 deepens our understanding of the final two phases of Karen Horney's thought - her break with Freud and proposal of a new psychoanalytic paradigm in the 1930s, and her mature theory, developed in the 1940s. In presenting eighteen previously unpublished pieces, four essays that have not been available in English, and other texts that have been difficult to locate, this collection makes accessible an important segment of Horney's work.

Editorial Reviews

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German American psychiatrist Horney (1885-1952) is well served by editor Paris (English, emeritus, Univ. of Florida; Karen Horney: A Psychoanalyst's Search for Self-Understanding). This work has two parts: one on feminine psychology and gender, the other on general psychoanalytic topics. Both parts have substantial introductions (each essay has a brief one), making this volume accessible to general readers and specialists. About half the 18 essays are previously unpublished, even untranslated, and foreshadow or augment Horney's books. Exiled from the Freudian establishment in 1941 (her resignation statement appears here), Horney fought for a more open, optimistic, growth-oriented, and socially conscious psychoanalysis. A feminist who put humanity above gender, she addressed topics of general interest with common sense and wisdom. Then as now, she presents a bracing challenge to all readers interested in self-understanding and human relations. Recommended for general adult libraries as well as psychology/human relations collections.
-E. James Lieberman, George Washington Univ. Sch. of Medicine, Washington, DC
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Review

"In this superb work, we now have at hand the unseen, untranslated, unpublished, and undervalued contributions of Karen Horney." Douglas H. Ingram, M.D., dean of the American Institute for Psychoanalysis

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 376 pages
• Publisher: Yale University Press (February 9, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0300080425
• ISBN-13: 978-0300080421
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,650,008 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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