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Quotes from The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud — Philip Rieff

1922–2006 United States

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Analytic therapy is thus a form of re-education; Freud specifically called it that.

The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud (1966)

In the age of psychologizing, clarity about oneself supersedes devotion to an ideal as the model of right conduct.

The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud (1966)

This total rejection of the religious question gives even Marxism a pious look.

The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud (1966)

The answer to all questions of “what for?” is “more.”

The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud (1966)

In classical cultures, an ascended class had to justify itself before those below in the social structure. But the culture revolution of our time has eliminated this need for class - as well as self-justification.

The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud (1966)

So far as sainthood is determined by unconscious and uncontrolled motives, it is neurotic; so far as sinning, as usually understood, is determined by conscious and rational choice, it is normal.

The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud (1966)

[To Freud], [t]he ascetic was limited, and often broken, in his organizational usefulness by a naïve dedication to principle.

The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud (1966)

[T]his transitional civilization is becoming one vast suburbia

The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud (1966)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Philip Rieff (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.