Shrinking History: On Freud and the Failure of Psychohistory (Paperback)

Professor of American Studies David E Stannard
Oxford University Press, USA
9780195030440
0-19-503044-3

A study of the burgeoning field of psychohistory - from Freud, its primogenitor, to its present-day academic practitioners - this work argues that little, if any, psychohistory is good history. The author.

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systematically points out the pitfalls, sheer irrationality and ultimately ahistorical nature of this mode of historical inquiry.