Peter Gay

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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.

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

I am not comfortable with the life-against-death generalization that Freud makes; it strikes me as too convenient.

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.

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Books about Peter Gay

	The Cultivation of Hatred (Gay, Peter//Bourgeois Experience) by Peter Gay Read more... | Comments (0) | Post new comment
	Pleasure Wars (Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to Freud/Peter Gay, Vol 5) by Peter Gay Read more... | Comments (0) | Post new comment
	The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud Volume 2: The Tender Passion (Gay, Peter//Bourgeois Experience) by Peter Gay Read more... | Comments (0) | Post new comment

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