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

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

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

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

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

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

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Reason cannot save us, nothing can; but reason can mitigate the cruelty of living.

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