Distrust between the sexex
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The distrust between the sexes
In the essay," The distrust between the sexes," Karen Horney has an analytical view of
the relationship between men and women with a look back at the older societies and the
history of culture. Horney in this essay is trying to drive psychological reasons for the
distrust between the sexes, mainly based on the Freud's works. Hornet insists on telling
us that women will always find themselves in a man's world. Whether women live in
tribal or in urban cultures, she wonders, "Could it be that men, therefore, have a vital
interest in keeping women dependent on them?"(368). In an effort to discuss about this
question and Horney's points of views and my own responses to them, first I shall look at
the history of culture and how it contributes to this matter from Horney's point of view
and how she believes that cultural backgrounds and history had played a role in forming
this attitude and mindset in men and how this attitude of men toward women calls for
control of women by men. Then I shall present Horney's points of views on differences
between men and women has been misunderstood as inferiority of women and superiority
of men and again causing a wrong reason for men to try to leash women and control
them. At the end, I shall have a brief comparison of status and role of women in two
different societies of U.S. and Iran as my home country...