Quotes by Philip Rieff, 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 going. Like his predecessor, the man of the market economy, he understands morality as that which is ...”

“Religious man was born to be saved, psychological man is born to be pleased.”

“The truth is, Jung has brought back one member of the old duality, unreason, with a new name; it is no synthesis at all, but only the latest maneuver in the war against rationality that has been co...”