"10 Peter Gay Quotes & Sayings

Born: 20 June 1923. Died: 12 May 2015 | Historian | Author |

And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically.

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Interest Strong Understand Certain

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My definition of modernism took a while to develop.

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Definition Modernism Took While

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Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.

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Historian Has Informally An

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My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right.

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Assumption Fundamentally Picture Human

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

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What Interest Always Modernism

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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.

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There Something Very Intriguing

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People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself.

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People Seem Forget One

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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.

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Have Liberal Temperament Kind

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The true hypocrite knows what he is doing, and does it to his own advantage. The unconscious hypocrite is simply man in civilization.

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True Hypocrite Knows He

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Freud never questioned the powerful participation of objective realities in the very constitution of human experience. Love, as he put it late in life, seeks objects. So does hatred. And those objects are external, not internal, agents of experience.

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Freud Questioned Powerful Participation

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"10 Peter Gay Quotes & Sayings

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

Peter Gay

Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.

Peter Gay

My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right.

Peter Gay

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

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.

Peter Gay

People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself.

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.

Peter Gay

The true hypocrite knows what he is doing, and does it to his own advantage. The unconscious hypocrite is simply man in civilization.

Peter Gay

Freud never questioned the powerful participation of objective realities in the very constitution of human experience. Love, as he put it late in life, seeks objects. So does hatred. And those objects are external, not internal, agents of experience.

Peter Gay

Peter Gay Quotes & Sayings

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"10 Peter Gay Quotes & Sayings

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

Peter Gay

Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.

Peter Gay

My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right.

Peter Gay

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

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.

Peter Gay

People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself.

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.

Peter Gay

The true hypocrite knows what he is doing, and does it to his own advantage. The unconscious hypocrite is simply man in civilization.

Peter Gay

Freud never questioned the powerful participation of objective realities in the very constitution of human experience. Love, as he put it late in life, seeks objects. So does hatred. And those objects are external, not internal, agents of experience.

Peter Gay

Peter Gay Quotes & Sayings

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