The present volume, a companion of Dr. Kiell's earlier collection of passages from fiction that deal with the experiences of adolescence, sets out to establish the universality of psychoanalytic propositions, such as 'the universal application of the recapitulation of the Oedipal conflict during adolescence'. To this end, passages from more than two hundred autobiographies, diaries, and letters are collected as documentary evidence of the sameness of the 'psychosocial' and 'psychobiological' experiences of adolescents in all ages and cultures. These passages come almost exclusively from the Western World of the last two thousand years. The documents are presented