There is, for instance, only one page at the beginning of Runciman's three-volume History of the Crusades describing how the participants decided to begin four hundred years of wars, and then several thousand pages devoted to the routes, battles and other events which make up the "history" of the Crusades.
Anthropologists have promulgated the myth of the peaceful savage so effectively that when actual deaths by war are tabulated for prestate simple soci… - Lloyd Demause
Anthropologists have promulgated the myth of the peaceful savage so effectively that when actual deaths by war are tabulated for prestate simple soci…
- Lloyd Demause
Historians are presumed to be unable to "do psychology," which is "mystical" anyway, so they are forced to accept the most "rational" explanations...… - Lloyd Demause
Historians are presumed to be unable to "do psychology," which is "mystical" anyway, so they are forced to accept the most "rational" explanations...…
The evolution of culture is ultimately determined by the amount of love, understanding and freedom experienced by its children... Every abandonment, … - Lloyd Demause
The evolution of culture is ultimately determined by the amount of love, understanding and freedom experienced by its children... Every abandonment, …
Whole great chunks of written history are of little value to the psychohistorian, while other vast areas which have been much neglected by historians… - Lloyd Demause
Whole great chunks of written history are of little value to the psychohistorian, while other vast areas which have been much neglected by historians…
Psychohistory, as a science, will always be problem-centered, while history will always remain period-centered. They are simply two different tasks. - Lloyd Demause
Psychohistory, as a science, will always be problem-centered, while history will always remain period-centered. They are simply two different tasks.
Written history may, in the course of its narrative, use some of the laws established by the various sciences, but its own task remains that of relat… - Lloyd Demause
Written history may, in the course of its narrative, use some of the laws established by the various sciences, but its own task remains that of relat…
There is, for instance, only one page at the beginning of Runciman's three-volume History of the Crusades describing how the participants decided to … - Lloyd Demause
There is, for instance, only one page at the beginning of Runciman's three-volume History of the Crusades describing how the participants decided to …
Psychohistory, like psychoanalysis, is a science in which the researcher's feelings are as much or even more a part of his research equipment than hi… - Lloyd Demause
Psychohistory, like psychoanalysis, is a science in which the researcher's feelings are as much or even more a part of his research equipment than hi…
Indeed, my conclusion from a lifetime of psychohistorical study of childhood and society is that the history of humanity is founded upon the abuse of… - Lloyd Demause
Indeed, my conclusion from a lifetime of psychohistorical study of childhood and society is that the history of humanity is founded upon the abuse of…
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