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KAREN HORNEY* HE NEUROTIC PROCESS is a special form desire, drive or religious obligation to at- of human development, and, because tain perfection. No serious student con- of the waste of constructive energies which cerned with man's development will doubt it involves, is a particularly unfortunate the undesirability of pride or arrogance, one. It is not only different in quality or that of the drive for perfection when from healthy human growth, but, to a pride is the motivating force. But there is greater extent than we have realized, anti- a wide divergence of opinion about the thetical to it in many ways. Under favor- desirability or necessity of a disciplinary able conditions, man's energies are put into inner control system for the sake of insur- the realization of his own potentialities. ing moral conduct. Granted that these inner Such a development is far from uniform. dictates have a cramping effect upon man's According to his particular temperament, spontaneity, should we not, in accordance faculties, propensities, and the conditions with the Christian injunction ("Be ye per- of his earlier and later life, he may become fect..."), strive for perfection? Would it softer or harder; more cautious or more not
The American Journal of Psychoanalysis – Springer Journals
Published: Dec 1, 1950
Keywords: Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis
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