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Karen Horney, M.D.
Neurosis and Human Growth: The struggle toward self realization. (1950)
"the needs for the absolute and the ultimate are so stringent that they override the checks which usually prevent our imagination from detaching itself from actuality."
"He loses his capacity for living in the moment."...
"his sense for the concrete, for the here and now."
p. 35.
"Every neurotic at bottom is loathe to recognize limitations to what he expects of himself and believes it possible to attain. His need to actualize his idealized image is so imperative that he must shove aside the checks as irrelevant or nonexistent."
p. 36
"The belief in an inherent urge to grow has always been the basic tenet upon which our theoretical and therapeutic approach rests."
p. 38
"The most pertinent symbol, to my mind, for the neurotic process initiated by the search for glory is the ideational content of the stories of the devil's pact....the offer of unlimited powers."
p. 39.
"Neurotic Claims"
"Life is awful, it is so full of reality."
p. 40.
"The more a person's view of himself and the world around him is determined by his imagination, the more he and his life in general simply are as he needs to see them. There is no room in his mind for seeing that he has any needs or any claims, and the mere mentioning of the possibility of his having claims may be offensive."
p. 51.
"The Neurotic process is a special form of human development, and --because of the waste of constructive energies which it involves--is a particularly unfortunate one." p. 15.
The neurotic" -- "a person in whom neurotic drives prevail over healthy strivings." p. 39.
"Under inner stress, however, a person may become alienated from his real self. He will then shift the major part of his energies to the task of molding himself, by a rigid system of inner dictates, into a being of absolute perfection." p. 15.
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