Horney believed that the motivation of a lot of our behavior is unconscious and irrational, however unlike Freud she believed that unconscious conflict is between hostility toward parents who don’t love the person and anxious helplessness.
Basic Evils – lack of caring, warm and affection environment in ones childhood including parental indifference.
Examples of portraying basic evils to children:
Ridicule
Indifference toward the child
Humiliation
Unkept promises
Isolation of the child from others
Due to these basic anxieties/evils children become hostile, aggressive, develop fear of helplessness or withdraw themselves (introverts).
Sources: http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/horney.html
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