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

Shrinking History On Freud and the Failure of Psychohistory

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      Publisher: Oxford University Press
      Publication Date: 8/25/1980 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780195030440, 978-0195030440
      ISBN10: 0195030443
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      Historiography Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology

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      Book Synopsis
      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.

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