In Horney's system, conflict in personality:
a. derives from incompatibility among the three neurotic trends.
b. decreases in intensity when one neurotic trend prevails over the others.
c. decides the outcome of determinism versus free will for an individual.
d. occurs between the anima and the animus archetype.
ANS: A
FEEDBACK: In Horney's system, conflict is defined as the basic incompatibility of the three neurotic trends; this conflict is the core of neurosis. All of us, whether neurotic or normal, suffer some conflict among these basically irreconcilable modes.
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