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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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