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.

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

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