4 Quotes & Sayings By Philip Rieff

Philip Rieff was a leading figure in the American intellectual life of the 1960s and 1970s. He was the author of such books as The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith in Modern Society and The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith in Modern Society. His ideas were influential and controversial, and he once caused a controversy in the pages of The New York Times by accusing one of his colleagues at Columbia University, Lee H. Hubbell, "as a man who has bought his doctorate from a diploma mill." He died in New York City at age 53.

Religious man was born to be saved, psychological man is...
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Religious man was born to be saved, psychological man is born to be pleased. Philip Rieff
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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 conducive to increased activity. The important thing is to keep going. Philip Rieff
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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 conducted with rising hysteria by literary intellectuals and humanists against the laws of a culture they have reason to distrust and disobey. The Jungian theory proposes to every disaffected humanist his "personal myth, " as a sanctuary against the modern world. Against the vulgar democracy of intelligence, Jungian theory proposes an aristocracy of feeling. From this proposal derives Jung's persistent influence on modern critical and aesthetic style. . Philip Rieff