ABSTRACT

History is meant to accommodate change over time, but once the intensity of change exceeds historical comprehension. Humanity is a category sufficiently comprehensive to discern its sense, a sense produced by its rationally coordinated arrangement, sealed by its self-regarding ethical idealism. The term 'psychopathology' alludes to Freud's investigations into the psychopathology of everyday life, the neurosis that afflicts this late civilization of latest things. The historicization, as a historical phenomenon, transcends ordinary experience, its consequences and implications radically alter the personal circumstances and affect the state of mind. Apprehension pervades the atmosphere of the historicized world. Apprehension, confirms that knowledge, particularly comprehensive, historical knowledge: is produced ultimately not from an apparently "neutral" basis guaranteed by academic disciplinarity. The aftermath and premonition suffuse experience in a historicized world, in a world that has 'passed out of the major order and symmetries of Western civilization', in the contaminated environment of a 'post-culture'.