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. - Peter Gay
My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right.
- 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 creatur… - 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 creatur…
Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word. - Peter Gay
Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.
The ideas of theologians are refuted by their adversaries, the ideas of scientists are refuted by their followers. - Peter Gay
The ideas of theologians are refuted by their adversaries, the ideas of scientists are refuted by their followers.
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. - Peter Gay
What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism. - Peter Gay
What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.
And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytica… - Peter Gay
And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytica…
People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself. - Peter Gay
People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself.
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… - Peter Gay
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…
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