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Horney's Psychoanalytic Social Theory of (Neurotic Needs) On SILAS in DVC
Horney's Psychoanalytic Social Theory of (Neurotic Needs) On SILAS in DVC
Horney's Psychoanalytic Social Theory of (Neurotic Needs) On SILAS in DVC
Psychoanalytic Social
Theory of (Neurotic
Needs) on SILAS in
DVC.
Tamsa Pandya
Department of English
MKBU, Sem-4
The psychoanalytic social theory of Karen Horney (pronounced Horn-eye)
was built on the assumption that social and cultural conditions, especially
childhood experiences, are largely responsible for shaping personality. People
who do not have their needs for love and affection satisfied during childhood
develop basic hostility toward their parents and, as a consequence, suffer from
basic anxiety.
Horney theorized that people combat basic anxiety by adopting one
of three fundamental styles of relating to others:
(1) Moving toward people,
(2) Moving against people, or
See, Anxiety and (3) Moving away from people.
Conflict that may
take the form of
either an idealized
self-image or self-
hatred. The idealized
(1) Neurotic search for glory,
self-image is (2) Neurotic claims, or
expressed as…….. (3) Neurotic pride.
Neurotic Trends
Attempts to combat basic anxiety,
Neurotic Needs And a Defensive strategies.
Contempt
Deserted
Discrimination
Helpless
Rejection
Abandonment
“The boy fled home but found the st
Silas born as Albino.
reets of Marseilles
Abused by his father.
equally unfriendly. His strange appe
Left home and grew up on street. arance made him
No one cares and friendly to him an outcast among the other young r
. unaways, and he
Fear of violence (From his father)
was forced to live alone in the base
. ment of a
Not even accepted in new world
dilapidated factory, eating stolen fru
too. it and raw fish
All circumstances creates fear in
from the dock” (The Da Vinci Code,
slias that led him towards anxiet 2003: 60)
Too Much Responsibility
A responsibility is something that Bishop," the Teacher had told him, "I hav
should be done by someone who g e made all the arrangements. For my pla
ets the responsibility. n to succeed, you must allow Silas to ans
Too much responsibility that is exp wer only to me for several days. (The Da
erienced by Silas and he has to do Vinci Code, 2003: 64)
what Teacher and the group Opus
Dei want. Silas feels that responsib
ility contradicts himself because h
e provides weapons to kill anyone
who obstructs the search mission
of keystone.
Theory of Self
However, in the neurotic individ
ual, the real self and the idealize as he depends on the focus of th
d self are separated. If individual e interest of other people.
realizes the full potential state of
idealized-self, he particularly wo The image of idealized self alway
uld respect real-self more than t s immerses to remove the reality
he idealized-self (Scultz, 2003). (Horney, 1945) because the ideali
It is because idealized self is fun ze-self is indispensable and inval
damentally unconscious phenom uable for human growth and dev
enon elopment.
Silas trying to be in state o
f idealized-self.
Respect real-self more tha
n the idealized-self.
An unconscious phenome
non.
Disturbed and confusing c
haracter as he perform.
My Outcome
It gives good insights
personally for dealing
with people in future. Link between
Human &literature
Future scope
For inventive studies
Better Poetic
(Spec. For Gender Studies)
justice
Works Cited
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Setyavan, Yusuf. "Sila's anxiety in Dan Browns Da Vinci
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UB Michello Badillo. n.d. 25 March 2021.
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