... self-defeating or self-destructive. Horney, along with other "Neo-Freudians", believed that factors other than biology play a role in our development (Smith, 2007). Horney believed that what drives us is given mean through our interpersonal, social, and cultural factors are the cause of personality disorders, instead of sexual difficulties (Smith, 2007). Our environment, peers, ... close to each other, however, in a far less than perfect situation there are great differences between the two. The actual self is a mixture of a person's strengths and weaknesses, and strategies and strivings...

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... . Freud's theory of personality development is called "psychosexual development." The theory discusses the oral, anal, and phallic stage. Girls get penis envy and boys get a castration complex. Helene Deutsch proposed that the triad of passivity, masochism, and narcissism is a natural concomitant of female biology. She suggests that because girls do not possess an "active" sexual organ, their "active" impulses ... must be inhibited and transformed into passive aims. Women are naturally suited to be "acted upon" rather than to take action, and the reward for passivity is love. Karen Horne...

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