Shrinking History - On Freud and the Failure of Psychohistory

Klappentext Studies the burgeoning field of psychohistory - from Freud, its primogenitor, to its present-day academic practitioners - and argues that little, if any, psychohistory is good histor. The author systematically points out the pitfalls, sheer irrationality, and ultimately ahistorical nature of this mode of historical inquiry. Zusammenfassung Studies the burgeoning field of psychohistory - from Freud, its primogenitor, to its present-day academic practitioners - and argues that little, if any, psychohistory is good histor. The author systematically points out the pitfalls, sheer irrationality, and ultimately ahistorical nature of this mode of historical inquiry.

Product details

• Authors: David E. Stannard, Stannard David E.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.08.1980
• EAN: 9780195030440
• ISBN: 978-0-19-503044-0
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History: theory & methods, HISTORY / Historiography, HISTORY / Study & Teaching, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), History: theory and methods, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis