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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (1639)	11/14/1999 11:40:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3246

That's probably a different kind of psychohistory than the one Edwarda is talking about, Charley. <g> The academic psychohistorians (and it is not a separate discipline) pepper their subjects with Freud before serving them up. (Or with Ericson, whose "Young Man Luther" is a classic of the genre, or with who have you.) Anyway, I have the feeling that psychohistory is petering out, now that traditional psychoanalysis has gone out of style. Couldn't resist taking a cyberpeek at the titles in the latest issue of The Journal of Psychohistory, and two of them, it seemed to me, have promise. <g> The Gulf War as a Mental Disorder Clinton's America: The Phallic Presidency Anyway, you probably know this all already, and are just pulling legs again. So -- what did Hari Seldon have in mind by psychohistory? Joan

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (1639)	11/15/1999 12:11:00 AM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3246

Here we go: The Gulf War as a Mental Disorder, or: Bush & the Evil Castrating Mommy (or was it Daddy?). psychohistory.com I just could not resist that title. I always thought there was something really weird about the Gulf War (almost as weird as the Panama operation), but I could not quite put my finger on it. The above article is also weird, and in spots unintentionally funny. And I object to the use of the word "we", as in "We were depressed." Speak for yourself, sonny! Nevertheless, some interesting insights here. (And I had forgotten all about the cartoons of Bush in a dress and with a pocketbook!) Perhaps those who want to see Bush in the Top 100 might want to take a look at this little chef d'oeuvre of psychohistory...<g> Next up: Clinton & the Phallic Presidency, if I can find it on the web. Or maybe not: nobody has proposed Clinton for the Top 100.