Abstract
In bridging the divide between psychology and history, this paper moves beyond Freud's psycho-analogical method. Rejecting most psychobiography as well as a return to traditional, positivistic sequence-oriented history, the author proposes to adapt and apply the concepts of “the digested past” from humanistic psychology along with the doctrine of “historicity” from existential philosophy. The foregoing are applied to a case study drawn from Mexican history.
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