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psycho-hiˈstorical, a.
Also without hyphen.
[f. psycho- + historical a. (n.)]
1. Pertaining to the history of the mind or soul.
1840Lowell Lett. (1894) I. 60, I am going to write a tragedy... It will be psycho-historical.
2. Of or pertaining to the psychological analysis or interpretation of historical events and characters. Also psycho-hiˈstoric a., in the same sense.
1945I. Asimov in Astounding Sci. Fiction Apr. 10/1 It would be a psycho-historic experiment of my own. Ibid. 30/2, I know quite a detailed version of Hari Seldon's psycho-historical claptrap. 1964E. Erikson Insight & Responsibility v. 206 What we may call psycho-historical actuality, that is, the sum of historical facts and forces which are of immediate relevance to the..anticipations and..apprehensions in the individuals involved. 1970R. J. Lifton Hist. & Human Survival 3 This psycho⁓historical approach..stems from a general uneasiness among practitioners of both psychology and history about the capacity of their traditional methods to describe and explain man during the latter part of the twentieth century.
Hence psycho-hiˈstorically adv.
1957W. Abell Collective Dream in Art 5 Psycho⁓historically considered, art is one of the cultural symbols into which society projects existent states of underlying tension. 1968Partisan Rev. 27 The principle of ‘death and rebirth’ is as valid psychohistorically as it is mythologically. |