{"title":"Horney's dread and envy of women: looking backwards and forwards.","authors":"Naomi Janowitz","doi":"10.1057/s11231-025-09514-9","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Karen Horney's masterful pieces \"The Dread of Women\" (1932) and \"Flight from Womanhood\" (1926) influenced not only psychoanalysts but students of culture in general. On the eighty-fifth anniversary of the journal she founded, we can look both back at these pieces and consider how dread and envy of women might be affected by the changes in gender identities, developments that Horney would have eagerly followed. In the decades since she described dread and envy of women, feminism has been unable to dislodge the basic binary, indeed hierarchy, of male/female. Trans and non-binary identities are toppling many standard ways of thinking about sexuality and gender. Are we entering a new age when repressive boundaries of gender and sexuality will be overthrown, or as psychoanalysts, should we be focusing on the always enigmatic core of sexuality, where Horney's dread of women will continue to flourish?</p>","PeriodicalId":52458,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":" ","pages":"236-247"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"American Journal of Psychoanalysis","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s11231-025-09514-9","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Psychology","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Karen Horney's masterful pieces "The Dread of Women" (1932) and "Flight from Womanhood" (1926) influenced not only psychoanalysts but students of culture in general. On the eighty-fifth anniversary of the journal she founded, we can look both back at these pieces and consider how dread and envy of women might be affected by the changes in gender identities, developments that Horney would have eagerly followed. In the decades since she described dread and envy of women, feminism has been unable to dislodge the basic binary, indeed hierarchy, of male/female. Trans and non-binary identities are toppling many standard ways of thinking about sexuality and gender. Are we entering a new age when repressive boundaries of gender and sexuality will be overthrown, or as psychoanalysts, should we be focusing on the always enigmatic core of sexuality, where Horney's dread of women will continue to flourish?
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The American Journal of Psychoanalysis is an international psychoanalytic quarterly founded in 1941 by Karen Horney. The journal''s purpose is to be an international forum for communicating a broad range of contemporary theoretical, clinical, professional and cultural concepts of psychoanalysis and for presenting related investigations in allied fields. It is a fully peer-reviewed journal, which welcomes psychoanalytic papers from all schools of thought that address the interests and concerns of scholars and practitioners of psychoanalysis and contribute meaningfully to the understanding of human experience. The journal publishes original papers, special issues devoted to a single topic, book reviews, film reviews, reports on the activities of the Karen Horney Psychoanalytic Center, and comments.
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