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单词 psychohistory
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Definition of psychohistory in English:

psychohistory

nounPlural psychohistories ˌsʌɪkəʊˈhɪst(ə)riˌsīkōˈhistərē
mass noun
  • 1The interpretation of historical events with the aid of psychological theory.

    心理历史学;心理动态史

    his greatest contributions were in the field of psychohistory
    count noun this psychohistory of postmodernity focuses on the changing image of California

    这部后现代主义心理历史学作品着重研究加利福尼亚的变化形象。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Like many disciplines, history stays alive through novelty spins, Romantic History, psychohistory, the school of the annales and oral history.
    • The lead in historical work on globalization is taken by specialists in international relations spiced by imaginative mavericks from fields like the history of science and even psychohistory.
    • I eagerly await Seidman's analysis of Asimov's psychohistory in terms of ‘pseudoscience ‘and ‘anti-science.’
    • In this far-distant future, Seldon's name is lost in the mists of history, and psychohistory is a occult practice, whose ‘Psycholars’ maintain their Galactic rule by keeping the tenets of their science secret.
    • As I understand it, the history of emotions hopes to stand psychohistory on its head.
    1. 1.1count noun A psychological history of an individual.
      个人心理历程
      the psychohistory of the author
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Nixon and Kennedy, both Presidents with dominant fathers had significant leadership flaws as their psychohistories explain.
      • He wrote several "psychohistories" explaining how people like Martin Luther and Mahatma Gandhi were able to think and act the way they did.

Derivatives

  • psychohistorian

  • noun
    • All along Ariadne is, even with her transformation into a psychohistorian and mathematical physicist, a particular interactive finite body, a particular finite system of ideas.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Even psychohistorians have discovered the Empire: a recent call for papers was made on the subject of ‘America as an Imperial Power?’
      • After reading Isaac Asimov's classic ‘Foundation ‘novels, he nurtured a secret desire to be one of Asimov's ‘psychohistorians ‘- futuristic social scientists who could predict the course of human history.’
  • psychohistoric

  • adjective
  • psychohistorical

  • adjective
    • In my estimation, Turner's psychohistorical reading has eclipsed the philosophical subtlety of Newman's project.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • My entree to the theme is Erik Erikson's 1969 psychobiographical and psychohistorical work, Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence.
      • Periodically, this Foundation would face a Seldon Event, a psychohistorical crisis, in which a threat to its existence which would constrain the nascent second empire to follow a single, pre-determined, path.
      • Fortunately there is, besides psychohistorical knowledge and mathematical physics, yet another knowledge - scientia intuitiva - which combines the other two in a single active act of understanding.
      • There was even psychohistorical analysis of a certain meeting in 1938, explaining how Hitler's superior mind reading skills led to devastating international conflict.

Definition of psychohistory in US English:

psychohistory

nounˌsīkōˈhistərē
  • 1The interpretation of historical events with the aid of psychological theory.

    心理历史学;心理动态史

    Example sentencesExamples
    • As I understand it, the history of emotions hopes to stand psychohistory on its head.
    • I eagerly await Seidman's analysis of Asimov's psychohistory in terms of ‘pseudoscience ‘and ‘anti-science.’
    • In this far-distant future, Seldon's name is lost in the mists of history, and psychohistory is a occult practice, whose ‘Psycholars’ maintain their Galactic rule by keeping the tenets of their science secret.
    • The lead in historical work on globalization is taken by specialists in international relations spiced by imaginative mavericks from fields like the history of science and even psychohistory.
    • Like many disciplines, history stays alive through novelty spins, Romantic History, psychohistory, the school of the annales and oral history.
    1. 1.1 A work that interprets historical events with the aid of psychological theory.
      心理历史学;心理动态史
      modern writers often substitute psychohistory for biography
    2. 1.2 A psychological history of an individual.
      个人心理历程
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He wrote several "psychohistories" explaining how people like Martin Luther and Mahatma Gandhi were able to think and act the way they did.
      • Nixon and Kennedy, both Presidents with dominant fathers had significant leadership flaws as their psychohistories explain.
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