Peter Gay's Quotes

Born: 1923-06-20
Profession: Historian
Nation: American
Biography of 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.
Tags: Able, Sense, SmallEvery historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.
Tags: Historian, Using, WordMy assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right.
Tags: Animal, Human, PicturePeople seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself.
Tags: Forget, Reason, ThinkingWhat interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.
Tags: Interested, Interests, ModernismAnd my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically.
Tags: History, Strong, UnderstandTo 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.
Tags: Able, Someone, Understand