Her best-known book,
The Neurotic Personality of Our Time (1937), was hugely popular among the general public, but its sociological bias and departure from many of the assumptions of orthodox Freudianism--for example, its rejection of instinct theory and its emphasis on the present and on cultural influences--made her many enemies among mainstream psychoanalysts. However, her analysis of the pressures of an increasingly individualistic, isolated, and competitive culture continues to influence our contemporary understanding of behavior: phrases such as "self-alienation" and "compartmentalization" were originally her coinage. Horney both invented a set of cultural idioms and founded a new movement in psychoanalysis in the United States.
Although she is known so widely as an analyst of American culture, Horney was German born and retained to the end of her life a German accent so strong that some of her American students had difficulty understanding her. Karen Clementine Theodore Danielsen was born in Hamburg on 15 September 1885.
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