Carl becomes nervous whenever he senses he is out of step with his peers. he has a good nine-to-five job, dresses well (or at le
ast like everyone else he works with), and has a house, wife, two children, and two cars. carl is not happy. which theorist might use carl as an example to support his/her theory
This example can be explained by the theory of Karen Horney. She postulates that the human being develops a self-real and a self-ideal, the self-real is our identity, and the self-ideal is what we want to be. As we grow we identify more with the real self and accept that identity. Sometimes, due to bad <span>upbringing</span>, we can not get to identify with our self-real and that leads to a neurosis where we do not appreciate our reality correctly by continuing to wish to be like our self-ideal.
