Fads come and go in historiography. Psychohistory had its moment. It came upon us with Young Man Luther: A Study in Psychoanalysis and History by Erik H. Erikson (1902-1994), published in 1958: One thing is for certain: the writing of history was worse in 1958, but the music was better: Maybe psychohistory will make a comeback. For some of us, 1958 is within living memory:  |