"All the drives for glory have in common the reaching out for greater knowledge, wisdom, virtue, or powers than are given to human beings; they all aim at the absolute, the unlimited, the infinite. Nothing short of absolute fearlessness, mastery, or saintliness has any appeal for the neurotic obsessed with the drive for glory. He is therefore the antithesis of the truly religious man. For the latter, only to God are all things possible: the neurotic's version is: nothing is impossible to me. His will power should have magic proportions, his reasoning be infallible, his foresight flawless, his knowledge all encompassing. The theme of the devil's pact . . . begins to emerge. The neurotic is the Faust who is not satisfied with knowing a great deal, but has to know everything."
--Karen Horney, Neurosis and Human Growth
Links
Karen
Horney at History of Psychology Archives
Karen
Horney page
Karen
Horney by C. G. Boeree
Karen
Horney at Microsoft Encarta
Brief
bio of Karen Horney
"What
is Karen Horney's Approach to Psychoanalysis?" by Isidore Portnoy
Karen
Horney in Encyclopedia of Psychology
Karen
Horney: Top 100 Women of the Millenium
Karen
Horney page
Karen
Horney lecture notes
Creative
Quotations from Karen Horney
Association
for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
The
American Institute for Psychoanalysis
The
American Journal of Psychoanalysis
International
Karen Horney Society
"The
Historical Roots of Gestalt Therapy Theory" by Rosemarie Wulf
"Crisis
in the American Universities" by Camille Paglia (mentions Horney as an
influence)
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