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Vote: | And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically. |
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Vote: | Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word. |
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Vote: | I am not comfortable with the life-against-death generalization that Freud makes; it strikes me as too convenient. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right. |
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Vote: | My definition of modernism took a while to develop. |
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Vote: | People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism. |
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There is a much more important Peter Gay, holder of the Sterling Chair of History at Yale University. -- 03:45, 10 May 2004 (UTC)
I moved User:Nunh-huh's text from here to the article space. This article is currently an orphan though. --User talk:Jiang|ng 08:39, 13 Jun 2004 (UTC)
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