SOURCE: "Fiery Giants and Icy Queens," in The New Republic, Vol. 183, No. 19, November 8, 1980, pp. 30-3.

In the following review of The Adolescent Diaries of Karen Horney, Spacks discusses Horney's early life and the ways in which her diaries shed light on her professional writings.

As an adolescent, Karen Horney argued with her parents, and condescended to them, worried whether anyone would ever love her, expressed her contempt for the older generation, had crushes on her teachers, overvalued the opinions of her peers, felt a horrified fascination with the idea of sexual activity: just like everyone else. Nevertheless, her diaries are remarkable.

Here she is at 15:

Tomorrow we go to Frl. Banning. Of course, we are both awfully glad, but we try to persuade ourselves that it is all the same to us or even a bother. On that account I've just been up on the Heideberg alone, for...