What It Takes to Grow: Pioneering Psychoanalyst Karen Horney on the Key to Self-Realization
The Marginalian • 2/26/2026
Summary
Pioneering psychoanalyst Karen Horney emphasized that self-knowledge is a means to liberate the forces of spontaneous growth. She stated that working on oneself is both a prime moral obligation and a prime moral privilege.
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