Psychology - Karen Horney (Feminism)
"She strongly criticized Freud in his view that women were dependent, vain, and submissive because of biological forces and childhood sexual experiences."
Karen Horney is credited with founding women’s psychology. Karen Horney was trained as a psychoanalyst; her career reached its peak shortly after Sigmund Freud’s death in 1939. For many years she was dean of the American Institute of Psychoanalysis in New York.
She strongly criticized Freud in his view that women were dependent, vain, and submissive because of biological forces and childhood sexual experiences.
Karen Horney insisted that the major influence on personality development, whether in women or men, can be found in child-parent social interactions. Today Horney would be called a Feminist.