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Our Inner Conflicts Author: Karen Horney Translator: Guo Xinyi Publisher: Beijing Times Chinese Bookstore
Our Inner Conflicts Author: Karen Horney Translator: Guo Xinyi Publisher: Beijing Times Chinese Bookstore
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Introduction · · · · · ·
"Our Inner Conflicts" is a representative work of Karen Horney's mature period of theory. Due to the influence of living environment, we make many choices and decisions that go against our own heart, thus generating various conflicts that dominate our lives. In order to resolve these conflicts, we not only fabricate "idealized images" to deceive ourselves and others, but also put the responsibility on others through "externalization", and develop a series of different defense strategies based on different personality tendencies. However, these strategies not only fail to eliminate conflicts, but make us feel fear, anxiety and despair, so that we fall deeper and deeper on the road of neurosis. In the book, Horney discusses the main types of these conflicts and their various manifestations, analyzes and summarizes various contradictory attitudes and tendencies, points out how the efforts of people disturbed by these conflicts to resolve conflicts result in failure and fall into a vicious circle, and puts forward suggestions and ideas for resolving these conflicts. The book is professional but not stereotyped, and tells the problem with the gentleness and delicacy unique to women, allowing us to observe and analyze ourselves from a third-party perspective, so as to change ourselves and finally gain inner integrity, maturity and peace.
About the Author · · · · · ·
【About the author】
Karen Horney (1885-1952)
A German-American female psychoanalyst. She is recognized as a major representative of the Western contemporary new psychoanalytic school, on par with Adler, Jung, Rank, Fromm, etc.
In 1912, he received his doctorate in medicine from the University of Berlin. He then worked as a physician in a psychiatric hospital. In 1920, he opened his own practice and taught at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute. He immigrated to the United States in 1932. Initially, he served as the deputy director of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute. Later, he moved to New York to reopen his practice and taught at the New School for Social Research.
Horney was one of the earliest advocates of social psychology, advocating the use of cultural determinism to replace Freud's biological determinism, and was a pivotal figure in the development of psychoanalysis. Her important works include "A New Method in Psychoanalysis" (1939), "Self-Analysis" (1942), "Our Inner Conflicts" (1945), "Neurosis and Human Growth" (1950), and "Psychology of Woman" (1967), which was edited and published after her death.
Translator’s Profile
Guo Xinyi
I am an English major graduate with a certain level of Chinese proficiency, a grassroots worker who is fluent in English, and an empty-nest elderly born in the 1980s who has a basic understanding of classical Chinese. As an amateur, I have won the weekly championship of the China Daily micro-translation competition and the first prize of a city's classical poetry creation competition. I have been a psychology enthusiast for many years, but I have never studied or worked in the field. This book is my only achievement in this field - if it can be counted.
