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

 

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


-Peter Gay
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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.

Peter Gay

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

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

Peter Gay

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.

Peter Gay

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

Peter Gay