Word: psychohistorians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...though less practical application elsewhere: "Even if the diaries were genuine, publication in Stern should have been forbidden in consideration of the victims of Nazi power." In the U.S., historians and social scientists labeled the diaries legitimate news, if authentic, but condemned some coverage as sensational. Concluded Yale University Psychohistorian Robert Jay Lifton: "In the melodrama unfolding before us, responsibility to history or to profound moral questions was lost in the intensity of commercial competition...
...Kaplan does not recede from the question of Whitman's sexuality. With the tools of the psychohistorian, the author recognizes the significance of Whitman's search for his sexual identity. Still, he doesn't overemphasize this side of the poet. While Kaplan unobtrusively reminds us that the "I" of Leaves of Grass is almost as often as woman as a man, on the other hand, he later analyzes Whitman's masterpiece in more universal terms. Kaplan sees the centerpiece of Whitman's life as both a "Whitman at his best, and when he is at his awful worst--windy, repetitious...