Reviews for Our selves/our past

The average rating for Our selves/our past based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-07-18 00:00:00 Yarees Sanders A decent collection of articles demonstrating the potential of "psychohistory" as an approach to the writing of American history. Robert Brugger's introduction is a helpful description of the state of psychohistory as of 1981. I think it's safe to say, however, that capital-P Psychohistory hasn't panned out. Rather than psychology, historians interested in the unconscious have turned more to literary studies and anthropology for a theoretical grounding. They have grown generally sensitive to the role of the irrational, the conditioned, and the symbolic in human life, but they study these aspects of life by studying the nexuses of communication. I think this approach is more consistent with the traditional tools and goals of the historian, since it keeps the scholar focused on the public and social dimension of experience.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-08-02 00:00:00 Frankie Coyner This book has in it an article by Stanley M. Elkins entittled "Slavery and Personality" where sociological and pychological parallels are observed between the effects of the institution of Americal slavery on Africans and Hitler's concentration camps on Jews. Uncanny.