Hidden Themes in the Frontier Thesis
An Application of Psychoanalysis to Historiography
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2106667 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alan C Beckman, Alan Beckman (St. Cloud Hospital, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1966 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 361-382 |
| Publication date | 1966-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0010417500004126 |
| PMID | 19593920 |
| OpenAlex | W1994034392 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 23 |
In 1957, when William Langer called the attention of professional historians to the 'urgently needed deepening of ... historical understanding' by means of the application of modern psychoanalytic theory to the problems of history, he seemed to have in mind the use of these constructs in the writing of biography and for the analysis of obviously irrational movements. In half praise, a critic found it interesting that this suggestion was not extended to the 'study of the psychic foundations of civilization and the historical process as a whole'. While encompassing less grand designs than these in this paper, I would like to add a further, but simpler, extension of my own. I would like to use psychoanalytic understanding in an attempt to shed light upon some aspects of a well-known problem in American historiography, the frontier thesis of Frederick Jackson Turner
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Biography · Civilization · Epistemology · Frontier · Historiography · Irrational number · Literature · Praise · Psychic · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Sociology · History · Philosophy · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society
Methods in social science
The interpretation of dreams.
Mainsprings of Civilization
The Significance of Sections in American History
The Significance of Sections in American History
The Turner Thesis
Memories of Frederick Jackson Turner
The American West As Symbol and Myth
Will the West Survive as a Field in American History? A Survey Report
Essays on Historiography
Why Some Historians Rarely Write History
Some Considerations on the Safety Valve Doctrine
Frederick Jackson Turner
"Farm-Making Costs and the "Safety Valve
Frederick Jackson Turner
Psychoanalysis and History
Freud and the Psychoanalysis of History
The Next Assignment
The Development of Frederick Jackson Turner as a Historical Thinker
The Wage-Earner in the Westward Movement I
The Wage-Earner in the Westward Movement II
The American Historian
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,03 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 1992 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |