In urging a conceptual, rather than a biographical, approach to psychohistory, this paper is a plea to psychohistorians to draw light from the creative flame of the pioneers: Freud, Adler, Jung, Rank, and Sullivan. Beginning with the Freudian concept of the psychic unity of mankind, the paper attempts to show how some of the insights of the pioneers are more valuable as integrating ideas for world history than as formulae for deciphering biographies.
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