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...combined his interest in history and psychoanalytic theory to examine how Martin Luther was able to break with the existing religious establishment to create a new way of looking at the world. Gandhi’s Truth on the Origins of Militant Nonviolence (1969) also was a psychohistory. In the 1970s Erikson examined modern ethical and political problems, presenting his views in a collection of...
...Margaret Fuller (1920) and Joseph Wood Krutch’s study of Edgar Allan Poe (1926), which enthusiastically embrace such techniques, through Erik Erikson’s Young Man Luther (1958) and Gandhi’s Truth on the Origins of Militant Nonviolence (1969), where they are adroitly and sagaciously used by a biographer who is himself a psychiatrist, to Leon Edel’s vast biography of Henry...
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