The Triumph of the Therapeutic Quotes

“Religious man was born to be saved, psychological man is born to be pleased.”
― Philip Rieff, The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud

“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, The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud

“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, The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud

“From Plato and Aristotle, through Burke and De Tocqueville, the therapeutic implication of social theory is remarkably consistent: an individual can exercise his gifts and powers fully only by participating in the common life. This is the classical ideal. The healthy man is in fact the good citizen.”
― Philip Rieff, The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud