Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.

And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically.

My definition of modernism took a while to develop.

People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself.

What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.

I decided that what I really wanted to do was to make my writing in history deeper, if that's the right word to use. And that is what I did.

The ideas of theologians are refuted by their adversaries, the ideas of scientists are refuted by their followers.