The Theory Of Horney's Sociculture Neurosis And Its Reality Significance

Horney was the pioneer and the main representative of sociocultural school of psychoanalysis .She inherited some ideologies,outlooks and methods of Frued's traditional psychoanalysis .Meanwhile she developed it and formed her own sociocultural neurosis theory.Horney believed that the motive structure of neurosis was the basic anxiety,which originally came from the contradiction of social culture and the dissonance of the interpersonal relation.The great significance of Horney's ideology was to analyze and understand the mental conflict of the Chinese people in the transforming period.During the period,various cultures mixed together and also conflicted with each other.The contradiction and conflict of the culture resulted in the Chinese people ignorance and puzzling when they face to the value and belief selection .Eventually many people fell into mental dissonance and conflict.