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Peter Gay Quotes
«People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself.»
Author: 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»
«Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.»
Author: Peter Gay
«And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically.»
Author: 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.»
Author: Peter Gay
«My definition of modernism took a while to develop.»
Author: Peter Gay
«I am not comfortable with the life-against-death generalization that Freud makes; it strikes me as too convenient.»
Author: Peter Gay
«What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.»
Author: 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.»
Author: Peter Gay
«My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right.»
Author: Peter Gay