at what stage does Karen Horeny belive we aquire our gender identification and where can i find it?

Question

i cant find karen horneys theory?

Answer 1

I've read some Horney but do not remember the specific answer right now.

Her book "Feminine Psychology" is searchable online at the link below (on Amazon), and a used copy is also available for $2 plus s/h.

Horney basically challenged Freud's negative assessment of women and turned the tables on him, even speaking of "womb envy" in the man to balance out Freud's "penis envy" in the woman.

Horney is a pioneer of the Object Relations theory, which suggests that personality is partly inherent but that it develops based on how the child interacts with (and is interacted with) things in his or her environment. The parents/caregivers play an extremely influential role in this development.

She did not believe in biological determination of gender like Freud, but that it developed from its relationships to gendered objects (i.e., other people).

So I'm not sure she had "stages" to her gender theories. She focused more on inherent strategies developed by an infant (moving towards, moving away, and moving against).

Answer 2

i believe that it is between the age of 4 and 6, agreeing with the same stage of gender identification that freud proposed, the phalic stage. im saying that because she agreed with him that we then do acquire our identity, but not in the way that freud exactly proposes. if u want to find her theory, u can look it up in yahoo. just type karen horney gender identificattion. sorry but i dont have any books to tell u about.