Neuroza i razvoj ličnosti

"If one were to accept the opinion that Karen Hornaj is responsible for the establishment of feminism as a social movement, it would be difficult to place her in any of its several significantly different realizations, but it is certain that her study of the psychology of women and her existential and gender specificities significantly contributes to deepening gender theory and its life implications. She certainly removed many misunderstandings and misconceptions about the fact that human life survives exclusively under the influence of man's biophysical properties. The specificities of femininity and female values, as explained by Karen Hornaj, in fact, show that the differences between femininity and masculinity should neither be overlooked nor simplified in theories about gender equality and human rights.

Already at the very beginning of her research and work with female patients, Karen Hornaj saw that the views of the then conventional and mostly Freudian school were wrong, at least as far as female psychology was concerned. Women are not the same as men, but neither are they as Freud saw them, argued Hornaj, who disputed Freud's right to claim that women are defective men." - Dušan Kosović