The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud

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$300.00
UPC:
9780226716466
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
3/15/1987
Author:
Philip Rieff
Language:
english

Product Overview

Philip Rieff has become out most learned and provocative critic of psychoanalytic thinking and of the compelling mind and character of its first proponent. Rieff's Freud: The Mind of the Moralist remains the sharpest exegesis yet to be done on the moral and intellectual implications of Freud's work. It was a critical masterpiece, worthy of the man who inspired it; and it is now followed by a work that suffers not at all in comparison. No review can do justice to the richness of The Triumph of the Therapeutic. Robert Coles, New York Times Book Review

A triumphantly successful exploration of certain key themes in cultural life. Rieff's incidental remarks are not only illuminating in themselves; they suggest whole new areas of inquiry. Alasdair MacIntyre, Guardian