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. -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.


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

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

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