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Something wrong?She dismantled Freud's theory of penis envy and built feminist psychology in its place, arguing that gender differences come from culture, not anatomy. Her challenge to psychoanalytic orthodoxy cost her standing in the old guard but opened a new school of thought.
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, It is amazing how obtuse otherwise intelligent patients can become when it is a matter of seeing the inevitability of cause and effect in psychic matters.
Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist...
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Born Karen Danielsen in Germany on 16 September 1885, she trained as a psychoanalyst in the Freudian tradition before emigrating to the United States. There she began questioning the master's core assumptions - particularly his theories of sexuality and the notion that instinct drives everything. She rejected the idea of inherent psychological differences between men and women, insisting with Alfred Adler that society and culture, not biology, shaped those divides. That stance founded feminist psychology as a distinct field. She continued practicing and teaching her revised psychoanalysis in America until her death on 4 December 1952.
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