Login | Register Share:
  Guess quote | Authors | Isles | Contacts
Peter Gay [1923-0] American
Rank: 104
Historian


Peter Gay was an American historian, educator and author. He was Sterling Professor of History at Yale University and former director of the New York Public Library's Center for Scholars and Writers.


QuoteTagsRank
My definition of modernism took a while to develop.
101
What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.
102
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.
103
Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.
104
My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right.
105
People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself.
106
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.
107
And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically.
108

The script ran 0.004 seconds.