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Claims (Horney)

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Claims for specialness; Defiance of human limitation; Godlike image; Immunity from blame; Intolerance

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Individuals with overidealized claims believe that they are entitled to receive special attention. Human limitation is a state that is beneath them, and they believe that any action that they make should not carry adverse consequences. Therefore, movement through the world is from a self-centered, self-serving position. Little care is given to how their own actions may impact others. If actions do have an abrasive or hurtful effect, defensive indifference generally arises, with an insistence that there is no need to change personal behaviors. However, when it comes to the nonfulfillment of their ownoveridealized claims and wishes, disappointed desires are met with frustration and indignation, coupled with a justification to retaliate or punish in return. The psychic cost of insisting on this overdetermined position is a pressured/driven approach to life’s goals...

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  1. The American Institute for Psychoanalysis, Karen Horney Center, New York, NY, USA

    Jack Danielian

  2. Woodland Professional Associates, North Hampton, NH, USA

    Patricia Gianotti

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  1. Oakland University, Rochester, USA

    Virgil Zeigler-Hill

  2. Oakland University, Rochester, USA

    Todd K. Shackelford

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  1. MacQuarie University, North Ryde, Australia

    Simon Boag

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Danielian, J., Gianotti, P. (2016). Claims (Horney). In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_1366-1

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