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- noun A psychological or psychoanalytic interpretation or study of historical events or persons.
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- noun The
scientific study ofpsychology andmotivation inhistory .
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Examples
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Lithwick's thesis about Thomas's psychohistory is intriguing, and may well be right.
IsThatLegal? 2004
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Therefore psychohistory is simply a view of actual history that allows one to observe and make predictions based upon the ebb and flow of logical knowledge.
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Okay, it’s sci-fi, and psychohistory is about as realistic as the faster-than-light hyperdrives, but anyway, maybe even the view that social models can’t be too deterministic without determinism is wrong, and it actually has no implications at all.
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Once again I remembered having very much enjoyed the idea of psychohistory, and this time I felt the same emotions – although not quite as strongly.
BestScienceFictionStories.com » Post Topic » The Foundation Project: The Psychohistorians 2010
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The premise of the series is that mathematician Hari Seldon spent his life developing a branch of mathematics known as psychohistory, a concept devised by Asimov and his editor John W. Campbell.
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-/ It could well be the case that we are subject to allegorical determinism aka psychohistory and in being doomed to repeat history must go through a depression prior to abolition.
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-/ It could well be the case that we are subject to allegorical determinism aka psychohistory and in being doomed to repeat history must go through a depression prior to abolition.
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Isaac Asimov's classic Foundation trilogy centers around a scientist, Hari Seldon, who invents a science called psychohistory, which allows the fairly accurate prediction of broad trends in society going for centuries into the future.
Safehaven 2009
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Isaac Asimov's classic Foundation trilogy centers around a scientist, Hari Seldon, who invents a science called psychohistory, which allows the fairly accurate prediction of broad trends in society going for centuries into the future.
GuruFocus Updates 2009
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First, he said he did not like the term "psychohistory," because he did not think it accurate.
Erikson's Enigma Come, Arnold B. 1999
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In Foundation, the science of prediction has become a reality with the development of a field called psychohistory.
Foundation review: Isaac Asimov TV adaptation is imaginative reworking #author.fullName} 2023
thenike5 commented on the word psychohistory
n. Utilization of psychoanalysis to explicate developed motivation of historical events. Termed coined by Freud.
No citation.
April 19, 2009