So If You Don't Rate, Just Overcompensate

To quote a quote, Karen Horney (Hughes, 137), a German-American psychiatrist, suggests that "the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work [is] due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement."
In her quote, she focuses mainly on creative work. Men are left feeling bland in the limelight of the woman creating life. They try to creative magnificent works of art to compensate for the fact that they cannot create life.
Wow...That's like a smack in the face, isn't it? Basically, she beleives that men are driven by a feeling of inadequacy; they play such a minute part of the process of reproduction that they feel compelled to compensate for that in other ways. That is a very interesting idea. Throughout history, woman has been praised for her ability to produce human life. Man, although necessary for the process, has been basically left out. In many early cultures, women and the "female power" were worshipped. In these early martiarchal societies, the energy of life is feminine. If these ancient worlds worshipped the feminine, how is it that we live in a patriarchal society today? The idea that Horney presents offers an interesting explanation. Men have felt so left out, sidelined by the power of the female, that they overcompensated (Maybe that's just me taking the idea to an extreme level, but it's interesting nonetheless).