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

Horney, Karen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300080425 ISBN 13: 9780300080421

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2000

Synopsis

This volume of writings by the psychoanalyst Karen Horney (1885-1952) completes the publication of her previously unpublished and uncollected work.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.

About this title

About the Author:

Bernard J. Paris is emeritus professor of English at the University of Florida.

From Library Journal:

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 About half the 18 essays are previously unpublished, even untranslated, and foreshadow or augment Horney's books.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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About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0300080425
• ISBN 13: 9780300080421
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 376
• Editor: Paris Bernard J.