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Peter Gay Quotes

Peter Gay Quotes & Quotations
Name:
Peter Gay
Type:
Historian
Nationality:
American
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    And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically. Peter-GayPeter Gay
  • 2
    Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word. Peter-GayPeter Gay
  • 3
    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-GayPeter Gay
  • 4
    My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right. Peter-GayPeter Gay
  • 5
    My definition of modernism took a while to develop. Peter-GayPeter Gay
  • 6
    People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself. Peter-GayPeter Gay
  • 7
    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-GayPeter Gay
  • 8
    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-GayPeter Gay
  • 9
    What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism. Peter-GayPeter Gay