I decided that what I really wanted to do was to make my writing in history deeper, if that's the right word to use. And that is what I did..

My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right..

And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytica….

With the passage of years, not all of Dicken's readers remained infatuated with his pathos. One generation's sublimity became another generation's ki….

Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word..

I have always had a strong interest in history and finding out about the past can be remarkably helpful with working out the future, too..

What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism..

My definition of modernism took a while to develop..

The ideas of theologians are refuted by their adversaries, the ideas of scientists are refuted by their followers..

Since God is silent, man is his own master; he must live in a disenchanted world, submit everything to criticism, and make his own way..

Freud, Jung thought, had been a great discoverer of facts about the mind, but far too inclined to leave the solid ground of "critical reason and comm….

People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself..

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 creatur….

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 aggre….