#5 - Self-discovery and conflicts: what the psychoanalysts say & self-analysis tools you can use

"The more we face our own conflicts and seek out our own solutions, the more inner freedom and strength we will gain."  - Karen D. Horney.


Internal conflicts are deeply understood in the field of psychoanalysis, as they explore the role of the subconscious in how we behave. People like Carl Jung & Karen D. Horney have spent years studying people, and guiding them to resolve internal conflicts.

The focus in this episode is on the individual processes that make internal conflicts arise & the tools they laid down for us to use to discover and resolve these conflicts.

Why is this important? As the quote above states: self-discovery is important for gaining more inner freedom and strength. Yet, how many of us truly understand why and how we even get to a point of experiencing conflicts?

The wisdom from Horney is used to understand how  conflicts arise, how they are related to our attachment style, the coping style we adopt, and how the idealized self image can be problematic. 

Afterwards, I present how to work of Jung gives us practical tools to bring the hidden parts of ourselves into our conscious awareness, like dream analysis.  


Book: "Our inner conflicts: A constructive theory of neurosis" by Karen D. Horney