Tag: Karen Horney

• Wasting Our Time

  Karen Horney’s (pron. “Horn-eye”) Neurosis and Human Growth is an influential but heterodox work of psychoanalytic theory that argues on behalf of self-realization (her coinage). It’s a good book that would’ve been a great essay, so I want to compress its framework of ideas here and sort what felt resonant from what didn’t. Here’s the […]

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  December 20, 2019

  Blog

  ethnomethodology, Karen Horney, Kenneth Liberman, Manuel Puig, neuroticism, object ontology, psychoanalysis

• Divided Minds

  We can’t go on together / with divided minds. —Pseudo Elvis Last time on @4Q248, i.e. PA.blogspot.com: We’re not saying life makes people schizo, we’re talking excessive frustration left unprocessed, or regular baseline frustration amplified by unstable parents [and] chaotic environments, charges vectors in the direction of schizo process. This is not necessarily a humanist […]

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  November 24, 2019

  Essays

  4Q248, Julian Jaynes, Karen Horney, literature, paranoia, Philip K. Dick, psychoanalysis, schizophrenia, W.E.B. Dubois