Juha Siltala's CV:

Juha Siltala, PhD (born 1957) has been researcher at the Academy of Finland

(1985-1996) and since then professor of Finnish history at the University

of Helsinki. His dissertation dealt with fascist violence as an attempt to

restore symbolic order during economic crisis. Since then he has published

numerous psychohistorical studies focusing on adult ways to handle

childhood anxieties under stress: on pietism, on nationalism, and on the

problems of modern male identity. This autumn will appear a voluminous

study on 19th century idealism of perfectibility and its origins in

childhood and actual group processess. In various theoretical articles

Siltala has critized current fashion to reduce human subjectivity either to

cultural influences or to inherited properties.

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