The popular science fiction series Foundation penned by Isaac Asimov explores the idea that course of future societies is not only predictable but can be engineered as well. In Asimov’s fictional world, a multidisciplinary called psychohistory combines mathematics, psychology, and history to predict events. Nicolas Rashevsky, father mathematical biology, lent credibility existence universal pri...

Goodman and Miyazawa have written a comprehensive history of Japanese concepts of Jews. They describe the eventual fusion of Japan’s prolific perspectives about Jews: each strand became absorbed by the black hole of a rabid antisemitism. After presenting highlights of the book, this essay points to its shortcomings in delineating topics primary to comprehend Japanese antisemitism: the catastrop...

This article argues that, although psychoanalysis and history have different conceptions of time and causality, there can be a productive relationship between them. psychoanalysis can force historians to question their certainty about facts, narrative, and cause; it introduces disturbing notions about unconscious motivation and the effects of fantasy on the making of history. This was not the c...

This article describes an encounter between servomechanism innovator, digital computing pioneer and creator of system dynamics, Jay Forrester, Isaac Asimov, renowned author science fiction (including “The Foundation Trilogy” its fictional discipline psychohistory) works popular science. Their lengthy exchange took place at a workshop in 1975 four descriptions it are extant. What emerges passing...

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ivergent thinking; creativity in women; hemispheric specialization opposing right brain to left as the source of intuition, metaphor, and imagery; the contribution of altered states of consciousness to creative thinking; an organismic interpretation of the relationship of creativity to personality and intelligence; new methods of analysis of biographical material and a new emphasis on psychohis...