The Mother of Feminism.
Karen Horney first brought forward her theory on Feminine Psychology in 1939. Horney (1939) wrote that Freud (1933) believed that there are psychic differences between the sexes which are engendered by bisexual trends. Horney's states that according to Freud, he believed the many psychic problems in man were owing to his denial of the "feminine" within himself, and with woman it was due to her fundamental wish to be a man.
Horney (1933) suggests that women, who were designed for specific functions in life would not be hung up on a wish to become a man. Horney (1937) found that Alfred Adler (1924) suggested that it was not the wish to be a man, but that some women wanted masculine qualities, such as success, sexual freedom, self-rule, power and the right to choose a partner.
Horney states that because some woman have a desire for these attributes, it does not necessary mean that all women have a feeling of being repressed because of that wish for masculinity.
Horney has concluded with her own experience that the society she lived in was dominated by masculinity and that some women wanted this masculinity in order to be able to have the freedoms and qualities that man had then.
