ABSTRACT
In this and the subsequent chapter, I will contend that Karen Horney’s revision of psychoanalysis manages to outfit the best of Freud’s observations and ideas with a greatly improved meta-theoretical scaffolding. Her work constitutes a form of analysis that is no longer susceptible to Dewey’s criticisms of Freud’s teachings; indeed, I will argue that her reconstructed version of psychoanalysis is essentially Deweyan in spirit. Her contributions have provided the basis for a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of personality than that offered by orthodox analysis, and I will show that her approach enjoys conside rable support from the findings of other social sciences.
