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Freud and Clio: a historiographical inquiry into psychohistory

This work is an attempt to examine the nature of psychohistorical writing after 1958 and to assess the impact of this new discipline in historiography. The year 1958 was chosen as the date of beginning of scholarly psychohistory for two reasons: in that year the highly respected historian, William Langer, in a presidential address to the American Historical Association, called upon his colleagues to use psychoanalysis in their research; and Erik Erikcon published Young Man Luther: A Study in Psychoanalysis and History, which has been accepted ever since as the finest example of psychohistorical writing.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc332549
Date05 1900
CreatorsSanders, Gary Burton
PublisherNorth Texas State University
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
FormatText
RightsPublic, ..., Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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