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Freud never questioned the powerful participation of objective realities in the very constitution of human experience. Love, as he put it late in life, seeks objects. So does hatred. And those objects are external, not internal, agents of experience.
And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically.
Since God is silent, man is his own master; he must live in a disenchanted world, submit everything to criticism, and make his own way.
Excellence was the best revenge.
The ideas of theologians are refuted by their adversaries, the ideas of scientists are refuted by their followers.
Democratic politics was many things, among them a kind of seduction, documenting once again the interplay of aggression with libido. It awakened and often gratified the electorate's hostile impulses, or at the very least, its desire for aggressive self-assertion. At the same time, it yoked followers to their leaders to produce a community rife with erotic overtones. Love for one's favorite politician was intensified by hatred for the opposition.
My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right.
My definition of modernism took a while to develop.
The truth is that the angels of anxiety - those overpowering forces for change in politics, economics, science, morals, and social policy - were at the same time agents for self-confidence.
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.
I have always had a strong interest in history and finding out about the past can be remarkably helpful with working out the future, too.
What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.
Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.
The true hypocrite knows what he is doing, and does it to his own advantage. The unconscious hypocrite is simply man in civilization.
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.
