A Mind of Her Own: The Life of Karen Horney

Horney’s 1927 paper “The Problem of the Monogamous Ideal” is a litany of the ways in which marriage is bound to disappoint. We are driven into matrimony, she asserts, by “all the old desires arising out of the Oedipus situation in childhood

Karen Horney led a restless life, full of shifting passions and allegiances. But in one thing she was consistent: her independence of mind.