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The truth is, Jung has brought back one member of the old duality, unreason, with a new name; it is ...

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The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud

Psychological man may be going nowhere, but he aims to achieve a certain speed and certainty in goin...

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The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud
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Religious man was born to be saved, psychological man is born to be pleased.

The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud
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Philip Rieff

Cultural critic

Born: 1922-12-15

Died: 2006-07-01

Philip Rieff (December 15, 1922 – July 1, 2006) was an American sociologist and cultural critic, who taught sociology at the University of Pennsylvania from 1961 until 1992. He was the author of books on Sigmund Freud and his legacy.More