![]() ![]() Gay invoked Freud as a hidden influence upon some of the most important artists of the past century. ![]() Gay praised his "long and unrivalled career as the archaeologist of the mind." In Modernism: The Lure of Heresy, published in 2007, Dr. Freud's integrity had been questioned and his theories challenged, but Dr. ![]() Gay wrote several works on Freud and summed up his findings in the bestselling Freud: A Life For Our Time. "Concern for individuality, that mark of the historian, pervades all of Freud's writings."ĭr. "Freud was not a historian, but he knew that men's minds, even their unconscious minds, change across time and differ across class," Dr. Gay studied psychoanalytic training at the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis and he advocated Freudian techniques for historical scholarship, rejecting fears that the field would be reduced to formulas about childhood desires and neuroses. Gay found in him not only a compelling life and body of work, but an approach to history. An urbane and non-believing Jew, like Freud, Dr. Western Europe was the setting for much of his work and Freud was Dr. ![]()
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