Shrinking History: On Freud and the Failure of Psychohistory - Hardcover

Stannard, David E.

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9780195027358: Shrinking History: On Freud and the Failure of Psychohistory

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

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ISBN 10:  0195030443 ISBN 13:  9780195030440
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1982
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