Talk:Karen Horney

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• To be free of sensuality means great power in a woman. Only in this way will she be independent of a man. Otherwise she will always long for him, and in the exaggerated yearning of her senses she will be able to drown out all feeling of her own value. She becomes the bitch, who begs even if she is beaten.

madness as lubricant

The 1968 novel "The Magus" by John Fowles includes the following:

This is a good layman’s description of environment-motivated and finally consciously induced paraschizophrenia — “madness as lubricant,” in Karen Homey’s famous phrase.

Does anyone know if this was anything she actually said? I can't find any evidence of it. ScratchMarshall (talk) 05:50, 7 June 2018 (UTC)