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