HORNEY 2.0

drive toward a vindictive triumph

may be disguised as a drive for achievement or success, but “its chief aim is to put others to shame or defeat them through one’s very success; or to attain the power

neurotic claims

Unrealistic demands and expectations of neurotics to be entitled to special privilege

neurotic pride

a false pride based not on a realistic view of the true self but on a spurious image of the idealized self

relentless demands on the self

are exemplified by the tyranny of the should.

merciless self-accusation

may take a variety of forms—from obviously grandiose expressions, such as taking responsibility for natural disasters, to scrupulously questioning the virtue of their own motivations

self-contempt

which might be expressed as belittling, disparaging, doubting, discrediting, and ridiculing oneself

self-frustration

stems from self-hatred and is designed to actualize an inflated self-image

self-torment

can exist in each of the other forms of self-hatred, it becomes a separate category when people’s main intention is to inflict harm or suffering on themselves

self-destructive actions and impulses

which may be either physical or psychological, conscious or unconscious, acute or chronic, carried out in action or enacted only in the imagination

masculine protest

a pathological belief that men are superior to women