“Because psychoanalysis is a secular paradigm of religious self-knowledge, it aims at abolishing itself…. [T]he psychological man of this post-religious century is struggling to make his deeper and more subjective processes clearer as neuroses, rather than as gods, as his ancestors had done. Later, probably, the therapeutic will have externalized his emotional life successfully, and [...]
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The Triumph of the Therapeutic (Philip Rieff, 1966)
Posted in Book notes, tagged D.H. Lawrence, Freud, Jung, Philip Rieff, therapeutic, Wilhelm Reich on March 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
