In addition, he sees Asimov as having suggested that the chaos-related development of the positronic brain was a necessary historical antecedent for the development of
psychohistory, because the math necessary for the first was necessary for the development of the second.
Wilson's view on
psychohistory was a radical departure from the views advanced by others positing an examination of the maintenance of social control in Western society.
Lloyd deMause (1988; see also 1974) maintained that 'the history of childhood had showed slow and steady progress over time, and that it was an evolutionary process which was determined mainly by psychodynamics within the parent-child relationship, rather than primarily by economic factors.' Reflecting on writing childhood history deMause (1988) argues that it has just begun and employing the approach of
psychohistory, a field he helped to invent, he writes:
On the origins of psychoanalytic
psychohistory. History of Psychology, 6(2), 171-194.
In doing so, he illustrates the interrelations of
psychohistory (another category that M.
This function appears not to have been present for Mr R in his
psychohistory, nor present in the form of a remembered internal object.
New York: Routledge, 2000; Joel Kovel, White Racism: A
Psychohistory. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984; Tim Wise, White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son.
"Barack Obama and the cycle of American liberalism." The Journal of
Psychohistory, 37, 147-159.
The narrative takes us from Jacob Burckhardt, Wilhelm Dilthey, and Johan Huizinga, through the Annales school of Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre, and on to a range of present-day practitioners (Peter Burke, Lynn Hunt, Natalie Zemon Davis, among others), having explicated along the way the basic concepts of an array of theoretical tendencies, including
psychohistory, cultural materialism, and symbolic anthropology.
Lyden: In your long years of studying
psychohistory in Vietnam and Nazism and cults, have you thought about the ways that storytellers tell stories and if we are human enough in our storytelling?
Admittedly, this is dangerous, as the atrocities sometimes committed in the name of
psychohistory show.