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

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

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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)

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

Freud: The Mind of the Moralist (1959)

Surely the romantic and now permanent revolution against the ancient regime of reason is against a regime largely invented by the revolutionaries themselves.

Freud: The Mind of the Moralist (1959)

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