Religion may have been the original cure; Freud reminds us that it was also the original disease.
Beyond the wounds of the child and the scars of the man, there is something in the heart of love itself that makes love pathetic. - Philip Rieff
Beyond the wounds of the child and the scars of the man, there is something in the heart of love itself that makes love pathetic.
- Philip Rieff
Self-confidence is inseparable from submission to the creedal order, and through that order, to the supreme authority expressed in that order. ... De… - Philip Rieff
Self-confidence is inseparable from submission to the creedal order, and through that order, to the supreme authority expressed in that order. ... De…
Man is tied to the weight of his own past, and even by a great therapeutic labor little more can be accomplished than a shifting of the burden. - Philip Rieff
Man is tied to the weight of his own past, and even by a great therapeutic labor little more can be accomplished than a shifting of the burden.
Intellection must address the matter of its feeling. - Philip Rieff
Intellection must address the matter of its feeling.
Religion may have been the original cure; Freud reminds us that it was also the original disease. - Philip Rieff
Religious man was born to be saved, psychological man is born to be pleased. - Philip Rieff
Religious man was born to be saved, psychological man is born to be pleased.
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 ec… - Philip Rieff
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 ec…
Scholarship is polite argument. - Philip Rieff
Scholarship is polite argument.
Reason cannot save us, nothing can; but reason can mitigate the cruelty of living. - Philip Rieff
Reason cannot save us, nothing can; but reason can mitigate the cruelty of living.
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