The triumph of the therapeutic : uses of faith after Freud /

Rieff, Philip, 1922-2006,

The triumph of the therapeutic : uses of faith after Freud / [print] Uses of faith after Freud Philip Rieff ; with a new preface. - University of Chicago Press edition. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, (c)1987. - xvi, 274 pages ; 21 cm

Reprint. Originally published: 1st edition New York : Harper and Row, 1966.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.



9780226716466 9780226716459


Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.


Civilization, Western--Psychological aspects.
Psychoanalysis and culture.
Psychoanalysis and religion.

CB245.R553.T758 1987 BD450