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Neurosis and Human Growth Author(s): Karen Horney Source: The American Scholar, Vol. 19, No.
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Karen Homey ErichFromm, withmanyothers(amongthem S. Plant,H. S. Sullivan)who had disJames AdolphMeyer, carded Freud's I first saw the core of TOGETHER theoryof instincts, in humanrelations. neurosis I pointedout, thesewere Generally, about cultural conditions;specifically, brought throughenby vironmental factorswhich obstructedthe child's unhampered in selfand Instead of developing a basicconfidence psychic growth. which I definedas a the child developedbasic anxiety, others, hostile. in a worldpotentially and helpless of beingisolated feeling the spontaneous at a minimum, In orderto keep thisbasic anxiety becamecompulsive. and away fromothers movestoward, against, eachwiththeothers, werecompatible, moves Whilethespontaneous in thisway, ones collided.The conflicts the compulsive generated results the of conflictwhichI calledbasicconflicts, were,therefore, to other withregard attitudes people.And ingneedsand conflicting were conflicts ofthese at a solution thefirst attempts largely attempts needs these and to some of full rein at integration, through giving others. andsuppressing attitudes, becausetheintrapsychic streamlined This isa somewhat summary, withthosegoingon in interare too closelyinterwoven processes for to have left themout altogether. me relations They personal To mention few: I could but a at various weretouched points. upon need for or need theneurotic's notdiscuss affection, any equivalent
O KAREN HORNEY is dean of the AmericanInstitute for Psychoanalysis. books are The NeuroticPersonality of Our AmongDr. Homey's best-known Time and Our InnerConflicts.
of the finalchapterof Neurosisand Human Growthby This articleis an adaptation of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. here by permission Karen Homey, M.D., printed has also been granted Inc.). Permission 1950by W. W. Norton& Company, (copyright out the book in October) to use for this single (who are bringing by the publishers of thebook chapter in thepresent book.Modifications articlethetitleof theentire piece of terms of definitions and explanations for an understanding consistentirely necessary in thebook,butnotin thefinal earlier defined chapter.
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to others, and attitudes without the qualities pertaining considering whichhe must of sucha need. in theservice cultivate within himself in Self trends" I enumerated -Analysis Again,amongthe "neurotic such as a therewere some which had an intrapsychic meaning, need for controlthrough will power or reason or a compulsive in the discussion need forperfection. For thatmatter, compulsive ofClaire's of her morbid (also in Self -Analysis) analysis dependency I dealtin condensed factors form withmanyintrapsychic presented in thesamecontext thefocuswas in thepresent book. Nevertheless To me neurosiswas still factors. decidedlyon the interpersonal a disturbance in human relationships. essentially The first was the contention this definition explicit stepbeyond that conflicts with regardto otherscould be "solved" by selfI propoundedthe idealization. When, in Our Inner Conflicts, conceptof the idealizedimage,I did not yet know its fullsignificance. I saw it at thattimesimply to solveinner as another attempt And its very integrating functionaccounted for the conflicts. withwhichpeopleadhered to it. tenacity Butin subsequent the imagebecame years conceptoftheidealized the central evolved.It actuallywas issuefromwhichnew insights the gatewayto the whole area of intrapsychic presented processes in Neurosisand Human Growth.Having grownup scientifically withFreud'sconcepts, of thisarea.But I was awareof theexistence becauseFreud'sinterpretations of it madesenseto me onlyin spots ithadremained strange territory. I now saw gradually thatthe neurotic's idealizedimagedid not constitute it was a falsebeliefin his value and significance; merely which in time rather monster like the creationof a Frankenstein It eventually usurpedhis driveto grow, usurpedhis bestenergies. And thismeantthathe was no to realizehis givenpotentialities. his diffiin realistically tacklingor outgrowing longerinterested was bent on in his but and culties, actualizing fulfilling potentials, forworldly drive notonlythecompulsive It entails hisidealized self. but also the tyrannical success,power and triumph, glorythrough intoa godlike to moldhimself inner being; system by whichhe tries of neurotic claims and thedevelopment neurotic it entails pride. of the original With theseelaborations conceptof the idealized
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While focusing on the attitude image,another problememerged. towardself,I realizedthatpeople hated and despisedthemselves withthesameintensity withwhichthey and thesameirrationality extremes remained idealized These two opposite themselves. separate in my mindfora while.But finally I saw thattheywere not only but were in fact two aspectsof one process. closelyinterrelated, in its the mainthesis of thisbook: This, then,was, draft, original The godlike With therecogbeingis boundto hatehisactualbeing. nitionof this processas an entity, both extremes become more accessible to therapy. The definition of neurosis too had changed. in one'* s relation to selfand to Neurosisnow becamea disturbance others. remains thisthesis to someextent themaincontention, Although in of the in recent it two directions. The question has grown years to me as to so manyothers, realself,1 alwayspuzzling pusheditself intotheforeground andI cameto seethewholeinner ofmythought, withself as a growing alien-idealization, psychic beginning process, in I realized that the last ationfrom self.More important, analysis the between the real self. The conflict self -hatewas directed against This inner conflict. andtherealselfI calledthecentral pride system2 I had conflict. of theconceptof neurotic madeforan enlargement drives. between two incompatible defined it as a conflict compulsive I beganto see thatit was nottheonly thisconcept, While retaining innerconflict is one between conflict. The central kindof neurotic self the obstructive forces and forcesof the real the constructive and thedriveto prove between of thepridesystem, growth healthy of the idealizedself.Therapytherefore theperfection in actuality self-realization. becamea helptoward Throughtheclinicalworkof of theintrapsychic thegeneral our wholegroup,3 processes validity
1 Definedearlyin Neurosisand Human Growthas "thatcentralinnerforce,common to all humanbeingsand yet unique in each, which is the deep sourceof growth," forcetowardindividual and lateras "the 'original' with which growthand fulfillment, when freed of the cripplingshackles of we may again achieve full identification neurosis." 2 The inseparable of neuroticpride and self -hate. combination 8 Here and elsewhere "our" refers to the Association in thisarticle, forthe Advancementof Psychoanalysis.
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in our described above becamemoreand more clearlyestablished minds. The body of knowledgealso grew as we workedfromgeneral in to the variations shifted to morespecific My interest questions. At first "kinds"of neurosis or of neurotic different personalities. of one or in accessibility in awareness theseappeared as differences or anotheraspect of the innerprocesses.Gradually,however,I of the realizedthat they resultedfromvariouspseudo-solutions offered a new tentative These solutions conflicts. intrapsychic basisforestablishing personalities. typesof neurotic When one arrives at certain theoretical a wisharises formulations, to comparethemwith thoseof others in the same field. working How had theyseentheseproblems? For the simplebut inexorable reasonthattimeand energies are too limited to do bothproductive work and conscientious reading,I must restrict myselfhere to out certain similarities from, to,and differences comparable pointing of Freud's. Even so limited a task with difficulmeets concepts great ties.In comparing individual it is hardlypossibleto do concepts, to the of the at justice thinking subtlety by which Freud arrived certain froma philosophic theories. Moreover, pointof view, it is not permissible to tear isolatedconceptsout of contextand then in them. Hence it is not usefulto go intodetail, compare although theinterpretation of details thedifferences are particularly startling. involvedin the "searchforglory"4 I When I reviewthefactors as beforewhen embarking on a voyage have the same experience withadmiration forFreud's new areas: I am struck intorelatively It is all themoreimpressive sincehe did piopowerof observation. and the neerworkin scientifically unexplored territory did it against There are only a few (altheoretical odds of cramping premises. which it he didnotsee at all or did of either relevant) aspects though concerns One ofthese whatI havedescribed notconsider important.
4 Occurringin the neuroticwhen "the energiesdrivingtoward self-realization are shiftedto the aim of actualizingthe idealized self." Other elements (besides selfand the need for a neuroticambition, idealization)in it are "the need for perfection, vindictive triumph."
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thefactthat as neurotic claims.5 Freudsaw,of course, manyneurotic fromothers. amount unreasonable an were liable to patients expect But regarding could be urgent. He also saw thattheseexpectations of oral libido,he did not realizethatthey themas an expression to i. e., of demands of "claims," character couldassume thespecific Nor did he consequently entitled.6 thefulfillment ofwhichone feels realizethekeyroletheyplayin neurosis. Also,in spiteof usingthe of the Freudwas notcognizant term "pride"in thisor thatcontext, did Freud But neurotic of and pride. specific properties implications of omnipotence; observebeliefin magical powers and fantasies ideal" with one's or withoneself infatuation self-aggrandize"ego of etc.; ment, competitiveness glorification inhibitions, compulsive theneed forpower,perfection, and ambition; admiration, recognition. forhim whichFreud observed remained factors These manifold to see that He failed diverse and unrelated theywere phenomena. see He did not,in other current. of one powerful words, expressions in thediversity. theunity Freudfrom to prevent combined Three mainreasons recognizing fortheneurotic anditssignificance forglory ofthedrive theimpact ofthepowerofcultural hewasnotcognizant To begin with, process. which to mold humancharacter a lack of knowledge conditions his The of time. scholars most with he shared implication European that Freud us in thiscontextis, in simpleterms, whichinterests which saw all around he and for thecraving prestige success, mistook Hence, for instance,a him, for a universalhuman propensity. or triumph could not dominance driveforsupremacy, compulsive worthexamining, himas a problem and did notstrike exceptwhen of what was condid not fitintothe givenpattern such ambition it problematic sidered"normal."Freud considered only when it
5 Harald Schultz-Henckewas firstto recognize their significance in neuroses. a person develops unconsciousclaims because of his Accordingto Schultz-Hencke, The claimsin theirturncontribute infearsand his helplessness. greatlyto pervasive Schicksalund Neurose,Gustav Fisher,Jena,1931. Harald Schultz-Hencke, hibitions. 6The only place where Freud remotely saw something claims was in resembling the contextof the so-calledsecondarygains fromillness,which in itselfis a most dubiousconcept.
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in reachedobviouslydisturbing or when, occurring proportions it did not concur with code of the women, "femininity." given Anotherreasonresidesin Freud's tendency to explainneurotic drives as libidinal was an expresThus self-glorification phenomena. sionof a libidinal himself infatuation withself.(A personoverrates as he may overrate woman another"love-object."An ambitious suffers from is a need A for need admiration "really" "penis-envy." for "narcissistic the inquiryin theory etc.) As a result, supplies," and therapy was directed towardparticulars of the love life past and present relation to selfand others)and nottoward (i.e., libidinal the specificqualities,functions and effectsof self-glorification, etc. ambition, The third thinkreasonlies in Freud'sevolutionistic-mechanistic "It manifestations conditioned that not are ing. implies only present the but contain but the past, reallynew is by nothing past;nothing createdin the processof development: what we see todayis only theold ina changed form."7 It is,according toWilliamJames, "really of the results the redistribution of the original morethan nothing On the groundsof this philosophical and unchangedmaterials." if it is is satisfactorily excessive explained competitiveness premise, or of seen as theresult of an unresolved siblingOedipus complex, are a fixation as of Fantasies on, or omnipotence regarded rivalry. level etc.It of the infantile a retrogression narcissism," to, "primary are thatonly thoseinterpretations withthisviewpoint is consistent which establish a and and can be considered"deep" satisfactory kind. of a libidinal connection withinfantile experiences of of interpretations effects the therapeutic From my viewpoint, into important if not positively thiskindare limited, obstructive, has becomeaware forinstance, thata patient Let us assume, sights. the thathe tendstoo easilyto feel humiliated analyst;he also by women he is in constantdread of realizesthat in approaching men. as other He does notfeelso virileor so attractive humiliation. sceneswhen he was humiliated He may remember by his father, On the sexual activities. with in connection groundsof perhaps thepresent and thepast,and of data likethesefrom manydetailed
7 Karen Chapter2. Horney,New Ways in Fsychoanalysis,
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Oedipuscomplex. As a resultof thiswork,the patient may feel relievedand the he has in factbeneIn lessened. of humiliation be feelings part, may about fited from He has learneda few things thispiece of analysis. But is irrational. humiliated himself and hasrealized thathisfeeling be a without the changecannotpossibly havinghis pridetackled, thatthesurface it is likely one. On thecontrary, improvethorough his mentis largelydue to the factthathis pridewill not tolerate The likelihood andparticularly hisbeing"infantile." irrational, being He shouldnot is that a newsetof"shoulds." he merely hasdeveloped He shouldnot feel humiliated be infantile and shouldbe mature. In becauseit is infantile to do so; so he no longerfeelshumiliated. to the be an obstruction can in reality thisway,a seeming progress is drivenunderHis feeling of beinghumiliated patient's growth. with itis considerhimself of his the and squaring possibility ground, prideinTherapyhas thusmadeuse of the patient's ablylessened. it. steadof working against Freudcould not reasons Becauseof all thetheoretical mentioned, in the factors Those of thesearchforglory. see theimpact possibly to werenotwhattheyseemed whichhe didobserve drives expansive libidinaldrives.His way of infantile be, but "really" derivatives him from of thinking expansivedrivesas appreciating prevented their andhaving ownconsequences. ownweight their forces carrying becomesclearerwhen we compareFreud with This statement to realizethe importance Adler. It was Adler'sgreatcontribution forpower and superiority. of drives forneuroses Adler,however, withdevicesof how to gain power and how was too preoccupied of distress entailed forthe to realizethedepths to assert superiority the of much on surface the too hence and individual, problems stayed involved. similarities betweenmy offhand We are struck by muchgreater of a self-destructive -hateand Freud's postulation conceptof self find least here we thesameappreciaAt instinct. death the instinct, 415
forthepatient lines:that aregiven dreams, interpretations alongthese the the analyst, as well as otherauthoritative represents figures, thepatient thefather; infeeling or inhisfear that humiliated, thereof, unresolved of an stillresponds pattern accordingto the infantile
Also tionof theintensity drives. and significance of self-destructive certaindetailsare viewed similarly, such as the self-destructive character of innertaboos,of self and resultant -accusations guiltdifferin this are area there Nevertheless, too, significant feelings. as assumed ences.The instinctual character ofself-destructive drives, When conceivedas by Freud, gives themthe stampof finality. do of definite not arise out instinctual, psychic conditions they Their and cannotbe overcomewith changesin theseconditions. nature. ofhuman existence andoperation thenconstitute an attribute and Man has therefore at bottomonly the choice of suffering them. and destroying or of making others suffer himself, destroying are but ultimately These drivescan be mitigated and controlled, when withFreud we assumean instinctual unalterable. Moreover, or death,we must drivetowardself-annihilation, self-destruction one expreswithitsmanyimplications, as simply consider self-hate, himself or despising sionof thatdrive.The idea of a personhating forbeingas he is is actually aliento Freud'sthinking. Of course,Freud as well as otherssharing his basic premises - observed of self the occurrence he was farfrom -hate,although hiddenforms and effects. As he interprets itsmanifold recognizing be is of someto self-hate the what seems it, "really" expression else. And hate forsomebody thingelse. It may be an unconscious for himself accuses it can happen,indeed,thata depressed patient committed offenses by anotherperson,whom he unconsciously in his need for "narcissistic of because hates feelingfrustrated thisis not a regular it becamethe occurrence, Although supplies." the mainclinicalbasis for Freud's theoryof depressions.8 Briefly, unconin himself hates and accuses but, fact, consciously depressed hatesand accusesan introjected sciously enemy.("Hostilitytoward towardone's own the frustrating object has turnedinto hostility is "really"thepunitive -hate to be self process ego."9) Or whatseems Here the latterbeing an internalized of the superego, authority. hate for -hateturnsinto an interpersonal phenomenon: again self is self seen as the his -hate fear of hate. or else Or, lastly, somebody
8 Cf. Sigmund Coll. Papers,IV. and Melancholia, Freud,Mourning 9 Otto Fenichel,The Psychoanalytical Theory of Neurosis,W. W. Norton,1948.
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sadism to an anal-sadistic ofthesuperego, from a repression resulting -hateis thusnot only accountedfor libido.Self phaseof infantile in ways entirely frommine,but the natureof the phedifferent nomenon itself is altogether different. otherwise along Freud's lines, Many analysts, strictly thinking valid reasons. have rejectedthe deathinstinct forwhat I consider it But if one discards natureof self-destructiveness, the instinctual is difficult of Freudiantheoryto account withinthe framework of forit at all. And I wonderwhether of theinsufficiency a feeling otherexplanations in thisregardwas not one of the reasonsfor instinct. Freud'spropounding a self-destructive and taboos Another between thedemands distinct exists similarity as the tyranny ascribed to thesuperego and what I have described we come theirmeaning, of theshould.But as soon as we consider is to a parting of theways.To beginwith,forFreud thesuperego it conscienceand morality; is a normalphenomenon representing if particularly neurotic cruel and sadistic.For me the equivalent a kind and degreeare altogether shouldsand taboosof whatever conscience. and neurotic force,counterfeiting According morality oftheOedipuscomplex, is partly to Freud,thesuperego a derivative and sadistic). forces(destructive of instinctual partlya derivative of the are an expression to my views,the innerdictates According into over driveto makehimself individual's unconscious something fornot himself hates he and he is not (a godlike, being), perfect in entailed these beingable to do so. Amongthemanyimplications but one. Seeing the shouldsand taboos as I mention differences, corollaries of a special kind of pride allows for a much more is violently demanded ofwhythesamething accurate understanding in another.The same and forbidden in one character structure also to the variousattitudes forgreater exactness applies possibility - or inner an individual may have towardthe superegodemands - someof whichare mentioned in Freudianliterature: attidictates These are rebellion. tudesof appeasement, subordination, bribery, to all neuroses(Franz Alexander) eithergeneralized as pertaining or are merelyrelated to certainsympathetic pictures,such as neurosis. On theother or compulsion hand,in theframedepression determined workof my theory theirqualityis strictly of neurosis, 417
character structure. It followsfromthese by the whole particular differences thatthetherapeutic Freud aimon thisscoreis different. can aim merelyat reducing while I of the superego, the severity aimat theindividual's inner his dictates to with able being dispense with and to assume thedirection of hislifein accordance altogether his truewishesand beliefs. does not existin This latter possibility Freud'sthinking. this far,we can say that in the two approaches Summarizing certain individual in a similar areobserved and described phenomena of theirdynamics and meaningare way. But the interpretations different. If we now leave the individual entirely aspectsand considerthewhole complexof theirinterrelations in as it is presented thisbook,we see thatthepossibilities forcomparison are exhausted. The mostsignificant interrelation is thatbetweenthe searchfor unlimited and powers, and self -hate.The realization that perfection are is an one. To mind is ancient it best they inseparable my of thedevil'spact,theessentials of which symbolized by thestories seemalways tobe alike.Thereis a human or spiritual beinginpsychic distress.10 There is a temptation, in some presented symbolof an evil principle: the devil,the sorcerer, the serpent(in the witches, of Adam and the dealer Balzac's The Magic Eve), (in story antique Skin), the cynicalLord Henry Wotton (in Oscar Wilde's The Pictureof Dorian Gray). Then thereare thepromises of not only a miraculous of thedistress, riddance butof thepossession of infinite And is it a of truegreatness whenone person can powers. testimony resistthe temptation, as the storyof Christ'stemptation shows. is thepriceto pay,which (presented in various forms) Finallythere is the loss of the soul (Adam and Eve lose the innocenceof their willI givethee itssurrender to theforces ofevil."All these feelings), if thouwiltfalldown and worship Satan to Christ. The me," says
10Sometimes this distress as it is in may be symbolizedby externalmisfortunes, it is merelyindiStephenVincentBent'sThe Devil and Daniel Webster.Sometimes Sometimes no distress seems cated,as it is in the biblicalstoryof Christ's temptation. Marlowe'sDr. Faustus,a to be present, but, as in the old Faustbuchand Christopher person is carriedaway by his cravingfor the glory of magicalpowers.At any rate, disturbed we know that only a psychically person will develop such a craving.In in "Snow Queen," it is the devilwho createsthe disturbance Andersen's Hans Christian itssplinters invadehuman and letting a mirror the first breaking place by mischievously hearts.
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in thislife (as in The Magic Skin) pricemaybe psychictorment or thetorment of hell.In The Devil and Daniel Websterwe have the beautifully souls collectedby realizedsymbolof the shriveled the devil. The sametheme, butwiththeinterpretation variously symbolized, of itssignificance hasappeared constant, againand againin folklore, - wherever in mythology, andin theology of good thebasicdualism andevilhasbeenentertained. thepopular Hence ithaslonginhabited too to consciousness. And the time may be ripe for psychiatry itspsychological wisdom. the parallelwiththe recognize Certainly in neurotic in thisbook is striking: An individual processdescribed his soul distress himself infinite to psychic arrogates powers, losing andsuffering thetorments of hellin hisself-hate. To come back fromthislengthy of the statement metaphorical to Freud: Freud has not seen it, and we can understand problem moreclearlywhy he could not see it,when we remember thathe did notrecognize forgloryas thecompound of inextricthesearch whichI have described, could not and therefore ablylinkeddrives realizeits power either.He saw the hell of self-destructiveness it as theexpression of an autonomous but,regarding enough; clearly he saw it out of context. drive, in Seen from another theneurotic perspective, processpresented the thisbook is a problem of theself.It is a processof abandoning real selfforan idealizedone; of trying to actualizethispseudo-self beinstead of our givenhumanpotentials; of a destructive warfare thiswarfare in thebest,or at any tweenthetwo selves;of allaying ourconstrucratetheonly, through having way we can; andfinally, forces our tive mobilized of finding realselves. by lifeor by therapy, In this could hardly sensetheproblem haveanymeaning forFreud. In hisconcept ofthe"ego" he depicts the"self"of a neurotic person from his authentic who is alienated fromhis spontaneous energies, of his own and assume who does not make any decisions wishes, sees for who to it that he doesnotcollide responsibility them, merely If thisneurotic too badlywithhisenvironment ("reality-testing"). foritshealthy thewhole complex alivecounterpart, selfis mistaken or William James of the real selfas seen by Kierkegaard problem arise. cannot 419
of moral we can look at theprocess from theperspective Finally, of a or spiritual values.Fromthisstandpoint it has all the elements truehuman forbecoming Howevergreat man'spossibilities tragedy. the and untiring alive shows an of mankind also destructive, history and the world towardgreaterknowledgeabout himself striving around toward towarddeveloping him, deeperreligious experiences, and moral greater spiritual courage,towardgreater powers greater achievements in all fields, and towardbetterways of living.And hisverybestenergies into thesestrivings. By dintof hisintellect go not yet and thepowerof hisimagination, man can visualize things do at He or can anygiventime. existing. reaches beyondwhathe is He haslimitations, buthislimits arenotfast andfinal. Usuallyhe lags This behindwhat he wantsto achievewithinor outsidehimself. which in itself is nota tragic situation. Buttheinner process psychic is theneurotic is tragic.Man humanstriving to healthy, equivalent and underthepressure out fortheultimate reaches of innerdistress theinfinite which thoughhis limits are not fixed it is not given to himto reach;andin this he destroys himself, shifting veryprocess of his his verybest drivefor self-realization to the actualization he actually idealizedimageand thereby wastingthe potentialities possesses. Freud had a pessimistic outlookon humannatureand, on the his of was grounds premises, boundto haveit. As he saw it,manis He cannotlive doomedto dissatisfaction whichever way he turns. without drives out satisfactorily instinctual his primitive wrecking himself and civilization. He cannotbe happyalone or withothers. himself or makingothers of suffering He has but the alternative thisway, he did suffer. It is all to Freud'screditthat, seeingthings not compromise witha glib solution. Actually,withinthe framework of his thinking, thereis no escape fromone of thesetwo distribution alternative evils.At bestthere maybe a lessunfavorable "sublimation." of forces, better and control, in but he did not see the humantragedy Freud was pessimistic, if there We see tragicwaste in humanexperience neurosis. only which are wrecked are constructive, creative strivings by obstrucAnd notonlydidFreudnothaveanyclear forces. tiveor destructive in man;he had to denytheir authentic visionof constructive forces
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For in hissystem character. wereonlydestructive of thought there Creacombinations. and libidinal their their derivatives and forces, of libidinal and love (eros) forhim were sublimated forms tivity drives. In mostgeneral whatwe regardas a healthy terms, striving - and could be- only an toward self-realization, for Freud was of narcissistic libido.11 expression AlbertSchweitzer uses the terms and "pessimistic" "optimistic" in the senseof "world and life affirmation" and "world and life Freud's in this negation." philosophy, deep sense,is a pessimistic in neurosis, element one. Ours,withall itscognizance of thetragic is an optimistic one.
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