What Can Freudian Psychohistory Tell Us?

Lloyd Demause describes psychohistory as "the science of patterns of historical motivations" and asserts that it is "a science, not narrative art like history". Freud is known as the founder of the psychoanalytical school of thought, the ideas of which can be used with historical enquiry to form psychohistory. Benjamin Wolman believes that a historian's job is to discover "what has happened in history" but psychohistory is useful as it presents a new way of approaching historical findings and of interpreting the information. …