Shrinking History: On Freud and the Failure of Psychohistory

by David E. Stannard

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195027353
• ISBN13: 9780195027358
• Release Date: June 1980
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.6"