MONOGAMY IN KAREN HORNEY: CONSIDERATIONS ON THE PSYCHOANALYTIC CONSTRUCTIONS OF FEMININITY

Authors

  • Patrícia Mafra Amorim Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
  • Fábio Roberto Rodrigues Belo Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5752/P.1678-9563.2020v26n1p239-260

Keywords:

karen horney, sexual, Monogamy, Surppression, gender

Abstract

This study aims to investigate contributions from the psychoanalyst
Karen Horney to the understanding of love relationships. We reckon the
author seems to be a good representative of what Laplanche points out as
present suppressions in psychoanalytic theory. We investigated the flow
of Karen Horney’s psychology of love, based on Laplanche’s methodology
for the analysis of psychoanalytic texts, willing to identify their merits and demerits in the construction of a psychoanalytic theory that is committed
to the political consequences of its elaborations. Monogamy, hegemonic
institution that tends to be interpreted as natural in our Western society,
seems the ideal field for the discussion proposed by the author on the place
assigned to women. Therefore, we shall trace a vector ray about the theme,
observing the different forms through which it repeats itself in the author’s
work. Arguing how romantic relationships are made up, it is necessary
to approach the issues of identification and gender, which pervade such
relationships.

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Author Biographies

Patrícia Mafra Amorim, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Doutoranda no Programa de Psicologia Clínica na Universidade de São Paulo (USP), bolsista CAPES.

Fábio Roberto Rodrigues Belo, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Professor adjunto no Departamento de Psicologia na Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG).

Published

2020-04-13

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