Anyone who has followed recent historical literature can testify to the revolution that is taking place in historical studies that currently fashionable subjects come directly from the sociology catalog: childhood, work, leisure. The new subjects are accompanied by new methods. Where history once was primarily narrative, it is now entirely ytic. The old questions "What happened" and "How did it happen" have given way to the question "Why did it happen" 46) Prominent among the methods used to answer the question "Why" is psychoysis, and its use has given rise to psychohistory. 　　Psychohistory does not merely use psychological explanations in historical contexts. Historians have always used such explanations when they were appropriate and when there was sufficient evidence for them. But this practical use of psychology is not what psychohistorians intend. They are committed, not just to psychology in general, but to Freudian psychoysis. This commitment prs a commitment to history as historians have always understood it. 47) Psychohistory derives its "facts" not from history, the detailed records of s and their sequences, but from psychoysis of the individuals who made history, and deduces its theories not from this or that instance in their lives, but from a view of human nature that transcends ( goes beyond) history. It denies the basic criterion of historical evidence: that evidence be publicly accessible to, and therefore assessable by, all historians. And it violates the basic belief of historical method: that historians be alert to the negative instances that would refute their theses. 48) Psychohistorians, convinced of the absolute rightness of their theories, are also convinced that theirs is the "deepest" explanation of any , that other explanations fall short of truth. 　　Psychohistory is not content to violate the discipline of history; it also violates the past itself. 49) It denies to the past any integrity and will of its own, in which people acted out of a variety of motives and in which s had many causes and effects. It imposes upon the past the same determinism that it imposes upon the present, thus robbing people and s of their individuality and of their complexity. 50) Instead of respecting the particularity of the past, it assimilates all s, past and present, into a single deterministic schema that is presumed to be true at all times and in all circumstances