Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Adler vs. Horney
- Theory
- Social Influence on
personality
- Types:
- Socially Useful
- Getting
- Avoiding
- Ruling
- Defined by High or Low Social Interest
and Social Activity
- Introduced superiority/inferiority complex
- Measured by BASIS-A
- Theory
- Feminine Psychology
- Womb Envy to counter
Freudian Penis Envy
- Types:
- Moving towards others
(Compliant)
- Moving against others
(Aggressive)
- Moving away from others
(Detached)
- Anxiety is key and
inherently social
- COMPARE
- Social influence over Biological
- Emphasis on importance of
unconscious psychological
processes
- Developed out of
Freudian concepts
- Advocated women's rights
- Neither do well on empirical data
- CONTRAST
- - Adler has a
measuring system
- Horney does not.
- - Adler = influential, well known, a template for theorists
- Horney = Only well known in Feminine Psych circles,
very small influence
- - Adler evolved Freudian concepts
- Horney opposed all Freudian
ideas
- No measures
- Adler has become widely influential while
Horney should have improved her measures
instead of criticising Freud so much.
- 1927
- 1923-37