Neurosis and Human Growth: The struggle toward self-realization

by Karen Horney

plain ordinary honesty with self and efforts to get on her own feet can go far toward attaining a measure of inner freedom.

intrinsic futility of ambition and success,

While originally he had to protect his inner self against the outside world, he now must protect it against this much more formidable inner tyranny.

if our capacity to love is well developed, we are not bothered about the question of whether or not we are lovable.

alert both of them to the differences between mere brainwork and emotional participation.

Instead of developing a basic confidence in self and others the child developed basic anxiety, which I defined as a feeling of being isolated and helpless toward a world potentially hostile.

disturbance in one’s relation to self and to others.