Gay was so riveted by Freud’s ideas and impact that he trained at the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis, an experience that shaped his widely acclaimed biography, “Sigmund Freud: A Life for Our Time” (1988). Much of his work was influenced by his preoccupation with the work of Sigmund Freud. Over the years, he turned his scholarly eye to a vast array of topics: a study of Mozart, a history of modernism, an examination of Weimar culture and what has been called a “revisionist psychohistory of the Victorian middle classes,” the five-volume “The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud.” Gay taught history at Columbia from 1962–69, then joined the Yale faculty as a professor of comparative and intellectual European history. The family eventually moved to Denver so that Gay’s mother could be treated for tuberculosis.Īfter completing his undergraduate studies at DU, Gay received a master’s and PhD from Columbia University in New York. With the rise of the Nazis, the Fröhlichs emigrated to Cuba in 1939 and later to the United States, where they changed their name to Gay, the English translation of their surname. Renowned intellectual historian Peter Gay - author of more than 25 books, including a much-heralded history of the Enlightenment and a bestselling biography of Sigmund Freud - died on May 12, 2015, at the age of 91.Ī 1946 graduate of the University of Denver, Gay was born as Peter Fröhlich to a family of Jewish ancestry in Berlin in 1923.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |