Uncovering lives: the uneasy alliance of biography and psychology
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1. Verfasser: Elms, Alan C. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Oxford University Press 1994
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-303) and index
Psychobiography is often attacked by critics who feel that it trivialises complex adult personalities, "explaining the large deeds of great individuals," as George Will wrote, "by some slight the individual suffered at a tender age, say seven, when his mother took away a lollipop." And yet, as Alan Elms argues in Uncovering Lives, in the hands of a skilled practitioner, psychobiography can rival the very best traditional biography in the insights it offers.; Elms makes a strong case for the value of psychobiography, arguing in large part from his own fascinating case studies of over a dozen prominent figures, including George Bush, Saddam Hussein, and Sigmund Freud.; Written with great clarity and wit, Uncovering Lives illuminates the contributions that psychology can make to biography. Elm's enthusiasm for his subject is contagious and will inspire would-be psychobiographers as well as win over the most hardened skeptics
The psychologist as biographer -- Starting from scratch -- Freud as Leonardo -- The auntification of C.G. Jung -- Allport meets Freud and the clean little boy -- Skinner's dark year and Walden two -- The thing from inner space: John W. Campbell, Robert E. Howard, and Cordwainer Smith -- Darker than he thought: the psychoanalysis of Jack Williamson -- Asimov as acrophobe -- The mother of Oz: L. Frand Baum -- Nabokov contra Freud -- Carter and character -- The counterplayers: George Bush and Saddam Hussein -- From Colonel House to General Haig -- Going beyond scratch
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