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historicize
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his·tor·i·cize  (h-stôr-sz, -str-)
v. his·tor·i·cized, his·tor·i·ciz·ing, his·tor·i·ciz·es
v.tr.
To make or make appear historical.
v.intr.
To use historical details or materials.
his·tori·ci·zation (-s-zshn) n.
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This project of Soyinka's is animated by a "commitment to the historicisation of the postcolonial contemporary and a relocation of its problematic within a symbolic order grounded in an indigeneous mythopoesis, but one that is equally engaged dialectically with Western culture and knowledge.
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This shortcoming of the TRC highlights an implicit danger within such a form of historicisation, explained by Butchart in terms of a distinction between a conventional "history of the past" and a genealogical "history of the present.
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I am arguing for a historicisation of psychoanalysis which examines the historical and social conditions which made possible both its methods and its objects of study, an engagement with key issues in the heated debate which still rages about its validity.
A proper conversation: some reflections on the role of psychoanalysis ... by Coullie, Judith Lutge / Journal of Literary Studies
 
 
 
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