"I Really Feel I Understand What's Going on in History" Excerpts from Lloyd deMause's Letters to Aurel Ende (Part 1).

This compilation of the passages from Lloyd deMause's letters to his German colleague and translator Aurel Ende gives a view of deMause, at the end of the 1970s and beginning of the 1980s, in his relation to German psychohistory as well as to pre- and perinatal psychology, primal therapy, and psychoanalysis. The letters also touch upon deMause's instructions concerning psychohistorical research methods and reveal his position in his personal life. His self-image as the "poisonous fantasy-leader" during the pioneering psychohistory meetings testifies of subjective ambivalences inherent in group dynamics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]