Karen Horney German Freudian Suffragette Interest Psychiatrist Postcard

WHD  This is a rarely found undated but modern published postcard featuring Karen Horney famous German Freudian psychoanalyst whose thoughts and papers on feminine psychology controversial for the era became pivotal for the Suffragette movement being formed in this beautiful portrait with full details on reverse of her works & history on reverse unused and mint.

"...Karen Horney (16 September 1885 4 December 1952) was a German psychoanalyst who practiced in the United States during her later career. Her theories questioned some traditional Freudian views, specifically in theories of sexuality and of the instinct orientation of psychoanalysis. Horney is also credited with founding feminist psychology in response to Freud's theory of penis envy. She disagreed with Freud about inherent differences in the psychology of men and women, and like Adler, she traced such differences to society and culture rather than biology.."

Horney was bewildered by psychiatrists' tendency to place so much emphasis on the male sexual organ. Horney also reworked the Freudian Oedipal complex of the sexual elements, claiming the clinging to one parent and jealousy of the other was simply the result of anxiety, caused by a Narcissism Neo-psychoanalytic theories. Women, according to Horney, traditionally gain value only through their children and the wider family. She de-romanticized the Victorian concept of how a marriage bond should be. Horney explained that the "monogamous demand represents the fulfillment of narcissistic and sadistic impulses far more than it indicates the wishes of genuine love..."