Skip to content

Psychohistory, as a science, will always be problem-centered, while history will always remain period-centered. They are simply two different tasks.

— Lloyd deMause Foundations of Psychohistory (1982)

Another quote →

Topics

More quotes by Lloyd deMause

It is no wonder that historians have chosen to hide, deny and whitewash the record here uncovered.

The Emotional Life of Nations (2002)

Most ethnologists scrupulously avoid describing how these children feel about participating in the killing or eating of their siblings.

The Emotional Life of Nations (2002)

Most historians have been as little able to feel empathy for infants sent to wet nurses as the mothers themselves were.

The Emotional Life of Nations (2002)

Anthropologists have concluded that "child abuse...is virtually unknown" in New Guinea.

The Emotional Life of Nations (2002)

Historians are presumed to be unable to "do psychology," which is "mystical" anyway, so they are forced to accept the most "rational" explanations... "and it is on these that history is built."

Foundations of Psychohistory (1982)

All Lloyd deMause quotes →

You may also like

A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love (1973)

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

James Joyce Ulysses (1922)

If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

Thomas Jefferson

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Lloyd deMause (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.