In Horney's view, the Oedipus complex in boys:
a. develops when parents act to undermine a child's security.
b. does not exist.
c. is biologically based.
d. results from the envy of the female capacity for motherhood.
ANS: A
FEEDBACK: According to Horney, Oedipal feelings develop only when parents act to undermine their child's security. By removing sex from the Oedipus complex, she reinterpreted the situation as a conflict between dependence on one's parents and hostility toward them.
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