Volume 22 - Number 3 - December 2015
Pages: 123 - 223
Stein, H. F. (2015). Petschauer’s psychohistorical poetry. Clio’s Psyche, 22(3), 160.
Petschauer’s Psychohistorical Poetry
family dynamics, father-son relationship, grief, guilt, Imperial Europe, loss of identity, maternal relationships, Peter W. Petschauer, poetry, psychohistory, psychology of terror, suicide, terrorism
Peter Petschauer, long a leading psychohistorian, is now a leading poet of psychohistory. His poems take us to the inner experience of history, without which there would be no psychohistory. In them, and in others in this journal, he addresses personal, historical, and psychohistorical themes that he not only observed but lived: haunting memory, grief, remorse, guilt, shame, family, his father and many mothers, suicide, identity and its loss, unanswered questions, Imperial Europe and its crumbling, World War II, the Holocaust, Stalin’s terror, and much more. Petschauer gives us the disturbing experience of intimate familiarity with history. His poetry gives both him and the reader no place to hide in “data.” Petschauer’s poetry is as much the substance of psychohistory as are his scholarly works.
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How to cite this article
Stein, H. F. (2015). Petschauer’s psychohistorical poetry. Clio’s Psyche, 22(3), 160.
