The Leader: Psychohistorical Essays
PETER GAY The syllabus of errors rehearsing the offenses of psychohistory looks devastating and seems irrefutable: crimes against the English language, crimes against sdentific procedures, crimes against common sense itself. These objects are real enough, but their contours-and their gravity myster...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer US
1985, 1985
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1985 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- I: Perspectives
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Leaders in Ancient Times: Joseph, Plato, and Alcibiades
- 3. The Heroic Period in Psychohistory
- 4. Sigmund Freud and History
- 5. Erik H. Erikson, Ego Psychology, and the Great Man Theory
- 6. The Growth of Psychohistory
- 7. New Directions: Heinz Kohut
- II: Studies
- 8. Lincoln and the Crisis of the 1850s: Thoughts on the Group Self
- 9. The Transformations in the Self of Mahatma Gandhi
- 10. Woodrow Wilson Revisited: The Prepolitical Years
- 11. Mirror Image of the Nation: An Investigation of Kaiser Wilhelm II’s Leadership of the Germans
- 12. Achievement and Shortfall in the Narcissistic Leader: Gough Whitlam and Australian Politics
- 13. Leaders and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation
- III: Conclusion
- 14. Reflections on Leadership