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Peter Gay

Peter Gay

AmericanJune 20, 1923 – May 12, 2015History

Gay's Freud: A Life for Our Time is the most comprehensive modern biography of Freud. His Bourgeois Experience series is a monumental account of 19th-century middle-class culture in its emotional and erotic dimensions.

Works

  • Freud: A Life for Our TimeComprehensive biography of Sigmund Freud and the development of psychoanalysis→
  • The EnlightenmentIntellectual history of Enlightenment thought and philosophy across Europe→
  • The Bourgeois ExperienceMulti-volume social history of bourgeois experience in nineteenth century→
  • Weimar CultureCultural history of Weimar Germany's artistic ferment and social crisis→
  • Art and ActEssays on relationship between artistic creation and historical circumstance→
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