SOURCE: "Recent Trends in Psychoanalysis," in Science and Society, Vol. IX, No. 3, Summer, 1945, pp. 214-31.

In the following essay, Bartlett discusses Horney's revisions and criticisms of Freudian psychoanalysis, discussing in particular her focus on the importance of social influences on the psyche.

In recent years, the writings of Dr. Karen Homey have become very popular. Socially minded psychoanalysts and social workers who previously relied on Freudian theories which they could never quite believe, are exceedingly enthusiastic about Horney's work. They find in it a useful theory of neuroses which includes Freud's valid observations but eliminates the fantastic distortions and reactionary implications. Horney is one of the first psychoanalysts to contend that the "neurotic personality of our time" is at bottom the product of capitalism. Erich Fromm, Reich and other analysts have also opposed Freud's biologism with a social emphasis, but do not have as wide a following as...