History and the Unconscious: The Theoretical Assumptions and Research Practices of Psychohistory

ISBN-13: 9783631838785 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 410 str.

Alex Shannon; Tomasz Pawelec

Opis

The first comprehensive, non-biased history of psychohistory, a vanguard branch of historical scholarship that studies psychological dimension of the past using principles of psychoanalysis and psychology.

Spis treści

The reconstruction of psychohistory's guiding assumptions - the systematizing characteristics of psychohistory's adherents' actual research into the past - the ambiguous notion of psychohistory - psychohistorians' "methodological thought" and their "applied methodology" - deep analyses of a few exemplary psychohistorical works

O autorze

Tomasz Pawelec, Professor of History at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. His research interests include history of historiography in Poland and the USA, the methodology of history, and collective memory. He authored or co-authored seven books and several other publications related to these areas.