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A Psychohistorical Insight Into Past And Present Romania
A Psychohistorical Insight Into Past And Present Romania

Author(s): Ştefan Borbély
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: NEW EUROPE COLLEGE - Institute for Advanced Studies

Summary/Abstract: Since this text represents the very first extensive psychohistorical approach to Romanian realities, linking together the past with the present in order to suggest a psychogenic continuity of motifs and collective obsessions, a theoretical outline of the method proves to be necessary. As Lloyd deMause puts it, “psychohistory has become a new science of patterns of historical motivations, less a division of history or psychology than a replacement for sociology...”. According to Paul Monaco, a sharp contributor to the same debate, “psychohistory is an approach, not a discipline.

  • Issue Year: 1996
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 25-92
  • Page Count: 70
  • Language: English