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- Title
Introduction: How Far, How Near: Distance and Proximity in the Historical Imagination.
- Authors
Taylor, Barbara
- Abstract
The article discusses the mental distance and proximity of historians. It relates the argument of author R. G. Collingwood about historical consciousness. The author defines human thought as composed of reasoned reflection only and that irrational elements, impulses and appetites belong to humans' animal nature and are therefore outside history. The linking of issues of past and present in psychoanaytic treatment to general problems of historical consciousness is attempted by Christopher Bollas in his 1995 book "The Functions of History."
- Subjects
HISTORIANS; DEPTH perception; HISTORY; COLLINGWOOD, R. G. (Robin George), 1889-1943; BOLLAS, Christopher; PSYCHOANALYSIS; THOUGHT &; thinking; CONSCIOUSNESS
- Publication
History Workshop Journal, 2004, Vol 57, Issue 1, p117
- ISSN
1363-3554
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/hwj/57.1.117