Shrinking History: On Freud and the Failure of Psychohistory
Book Details
Author(s)
David E. Stannard
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN / ASIN
0195030443
ISBN-13
9780195030440
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#1,623,048
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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 systematically points out the pitfalls, sheer irrationality and ultimately ahistorical nature of this mode of historical inquiry.
