Horney believes that this society is full of general hostility due to the pressure of competition. The result of this potential hostile tension between people is the constant fear - the fear of failure and the fear of the potential hostility of others. This fear is intensified by the fear of retaliation by others for one's hostility. This book provides a fascinating and thorough analysis of the mental states of pathological personality: our anxieties, pain, and obstacles we encounter in our personal lives and in our interactions with others. This book systematically discusses the intensification of competition and the loss of security in our era, and points out that personal competition is becoming increasingly fierce. What we can do is neither to resist this era nor to passively adapt, but to seek a positive competition model. From this perspective, this book is a good self-reflective reading, which guides us to maintain everyone's individuality, rather than leaving everyone to the tide of competition.
Reader comments
This book is very interesting! Horney's analysis of pathological personality was very thorough and made me think more about my own behavior and the behavior of those around me. I liked the point she made about the aggressive competitive model, it gave me some inspiration. The book also mentions many different characters, some of which are quite annoying, such as those who are not enterprising. However, this book can indeed help us better understand ourselves and others, and I think it is worth reading.
After just reading it for a while, I felt that the author was very right, but I have a question, that is, why did I find my own shadow? Didn't it mean that it couldn't be discovered?
Alas, the introduction described what I had envisioned in just a few sentences.
I also thought that this might be just me thinking about it, but I didn't expect that someone agreed with me and resonated with me.
After reading this, I was diagnosed with a pathological personality [crying]
This book is very interesting! Horney's analysis of pathological personality was very thorough and made me think more about my own behavior and the behavior of those around me. I liked the point she made about the aggressive competitive model, it gave me some inspiration. The book also mentions many different characters, some of which are quite annoying, such as those who are not enterprising. However, this book can indeed help us better understand ourselves and others, and I think it is worth reading.
After just reading it for a while, I felt that the author was very right, but I have a question, that is, why did I find my own shadow? Didn't it mean that it couldn't be discovered?
Alas, the introduction described what I had envisioned in just a few sentences. I also thought that this might be just me thinking about it, but I didn't expect that someone agreed with me and resonated with me.
After reading this, I was diagnosed with a pathological personality [crying]