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Basic anxiety can be roughly described as a feeling of being small, insignificant, helpless, deserted or endangered in a world that is out to abuse, cheat, humiliate, betray, envy... . And special in this is the child's feeling that the parents' love, their Christian charity, honesty, generosity ... may be only a pretense.

Karen Horney

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Karen Horney
Age: 67 †
Born: 1885
Born: September 16
Died: 1952
Died: December 4
Psychiatrist
Psychoanalyst
Child
Charity
Insignificant
Christian
Anxiety
Cheat
Feelings
Honesty
Betray
Endangered
May
Parents
Helpless
Humiliate
Children
Special
Generosity
Roughly
Love
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Envy
Deserted
World
Small
Abuse
Pretense
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Basic
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a normal human being ... does not exist.
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Because it corresponds to a vital need, love is overvalued in our culture. It becomes a phantom - like success - carrying with it the illusion that it is a solution for all problems.
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The conception of what is normal varies not only with the culture but also within the same culture, in the course of time.
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It would not be going too far to assert that ... conflict confronts every woman who ventures upon a career of her own and who is ... unwilling to pay for her daring with the renunciation of her femininity.
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