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Type: Historian Quotes Category: American Historian Quotes Date of Birth: June 20, 1923 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Peter Gay Related Authors: Christopher Lasch Stephen Ambrose Will Durant John Thorn Carter G. Woodson Daniel J. Boorstin David McCullough Kenneth Scott Latourette |
And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically.
Peter Gay Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word. Peter Gay My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right. Peter Gay My definition of modernism took a while to develop. Peter Gay People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself. Peter Gay There is something very intriguing about, for example, the sense of accomplishment that a small child has, which you might be able to reduce to aggression and libido, but which might also have some independent existence. Peter Gay To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree. Peter Gay What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism. Peter Gay |
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