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Triumph of the Therapeutic, The: Uses of Faith after Freud
Outline: Because of the nature of his moral principles the therapeutic is, according to the author, the basic revolutionary type of our time, cutting across all lines that divide men in the social order. He is the true unbeliever, the postulant of an anticreed, using all faiths or none in the systematic pursuit of his sense of well-being. Philip Rieff's commanding study Freud: The Mind of the Moralist was hailed as a fundamental analysis of modern moral principle and belief. In this brilliant and controversial book, Rieff continues his probe of modern culture and its revolutionizers - Freud and his successor-critics, Jung, Reich, and Lawrence - to explain the character of the therapeutic and his culture,
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