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Shrinking History: On Freud and the Failure of Psychohistory
Author(s): David E. Stannard (Author)
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication Date: March 11, 1982
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 208 pages
- ISBN-10: 0195030443
- ISBN-13: 9780195030440
Book Description
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.
