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Peter Gay
American
Historian
About the author
Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.
Peter Gay,
American
Historian
#Word
#Anthropology
My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right.
Peter Gay,
American
Historian
#Right
And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically.
Peter Gay,
American
Historian
#Understanding
#History
#Interest
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 Gay,
American
Historian
#Sense
#Accomplishment
#Example
#Aggression
#Existence
People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself.
Peter Gay,
American
Historian
#Now
#People
#Forget
#Thinking
#Reason
My definition of modernism took a while to develop.
Peter Gay,
American
Historian
What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.
Peter Gay,
American
Historian
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 Gay,
American
Historian
#Liberal
#Temperament