Triumph of the Therapeutic
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Uses of Faith After Freud
Philip Rieff
overview
Since its publication in 1966, "The Triumph of the Therapeutic" has been hailed as a work of genuine brilliance, one of those books whose insights uncannily anticipate cultural developments and whose richness of argumentation reorients entire fields of inquiry. This special fortieth-anniversary edition of Philip Rieff' s masterpiece, the first volume in ISI Books' new Background series, includes an introduction by Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn and essays on the text by historians Eugene McCarraher and Wilfred McClay and philosopher Stephen Gardner.
contents
Preface vii
Chapters•
Introductory: Toward a Theory of Culture 1
1) The Analytic Attitude: Freud's Legacy and Its Inheritors 29
2) The Impoverishment of Western Culture 48
3) Community and Therapy 66
4) In Defense of the Analytic Attitude 79
5) The Therapeuticas Theologian: Jung's Psychology as a Language of Faith 108
6) The Therapeutic as Martyr: Reich's Religion of Energy 141
7) The Therapeutic as Myth maker: Lawrence's True Christian Philosophy 189
8) The Triumph of the Therapeutic 232
Index 263