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Peter Gay was an American historian and cultural critic, born on June 20, 1923, and died on May 12, 2015. He is renowned for his extensive research in the cultural history of 18th-century Europe, and his works have had a profound impact on subsequent generations.

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Famous Peter Gay Quotes

“The human mind hungers for reality; except for the largely encapsulated id, which is the depository of the raw drives and of deeply repressed material, the other institutions of the mind, the ego and the superego, draw continuously and liberally on the culture in which they subsist, develop, succeed, and fail. While the mind presents the world with its needs, the world gives the mind its grammar, wishes their vocabulary, anxieties their object.”

Culture Experience Bourgeois Psyche Structure

Book:The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud, Volume 3: The Cultivation of Hatred

Source: The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud, Volume 3: The Cultivation of Hatred

“Freud, Jung thought, had been a great discoverer of facts about the mind, but far too inclined to leave the solid ground of "critical reason and common sense." Freud for his part criticized Jung for being gullible about occult phenomena and infatuated with Oriental religions; he viewed with sardonic and unmitigated skepticism Jung's defense of religious feelings as an integral element in mental health. For Freud, religion was a psychological need projected onto culture, the child's feeling of helplessness surviving in adults, to be analyzed rather than admired.”