The triumph of the therapeutic : uses of faith after Freud ; with a new preface / Philip Rieff.

  • Rieff, Philip, 1922-2006.
Date:
1987
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Chicago] : University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Physical description

xvi, 274 pages ; 21 cm

Edition

University of Chicago Press ed.

Notes

Reprint. Originally published: 1st ed. New York : Harper & Row, 1966

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

Introductory : Toward a theory of culture -- The analytic attitude : Freud's legacy and its inheritors -- The impoverishment of Western culture -- Community and therapy -- In defense of the analytic attitude -- The therapeutic as theologian : Jung's psychology as language of faith -- The therapeutic as martyr : Reich's religion of energy -- The therapeutic as mythmaker : Lawrence's true Christian philosophy -- The triumph of the therapeutic.

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  • 0226716465
  • 0226716457