History

Universal or world history is a study of past events of mankind as a whole, preserved in monuments, relics, documents, and narratives, and also in social customs and ceremonials as oral or written tradition, via continuous transgenerational transmission. This chapter examines the historicity in Freud's three methodological concepts: trauma, dream, and transference in relation to the lives of individuals. Scenes as dramatic events witnessed in the here-and-now are the stuff of dramatology; stories of dramas that occurred there-and-then, recited or recorded, pertain to narratology. Reich both diagnosed the sexual neurosis of the masses and offered sex-economy as a method of healing and prevention and sought to explain the behavior of the masses, Hitler, and their interactions, mixing sociology, politics, and history in his own brand of psychohistory. But Hitler's mass psychological effect can be successful only if his ideology, or program bears a resemblance to the average structure of a broad category of individuals.