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

• Main Author: Pawelec, Tomasz (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 2021
• Series: Studies in History, Memory and Politics 38
• Subjects: History; Archaeology; Applied Psychoanalysis; Assumptions; badawcza; Dzieje; Historical Scholarship in the USA; History and Psychology; History of Childhood; Methodology of History; nieświadomość; Pawelec; Practices; praktyka; psychohistorii; Psychohistory; Slaskiego; teoretyczne; Theoretical; Theory of History; Unconscious; Uniwersytetu; Wydawnictwo; Założenia
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Summary

This work represents the first truly comprehensive and non-biased history of psychohistory, a vanguard branch of historical scholarship that studies the psychological dimension of the past using principles of psychoanalysis and psychology as its theoretical ground. Tomasz Pawelec is an experienced methodologist and historiographer who systematically examines, reconstructs, and evaluates the major theoretical and methodological guiding assumptions shared by psychohistorians. In effect, he provides the reader with an intriguing portrait of a peculiar research paradigm - and a specific intellectual "monad" - that developed within the twentieth-century American history. At the empirical foundation of his work lies a broad collection of psychohistorical publications.

Physical Description

1 electronic resource (410 p.)

ISBN

b17825
9783631840658
9783631840665
9783631840672
9783631838785

Access

Open Access