The alternatives with which Freud leaves us are grim only if we view them from the perspective of some past possibility. … The grimness is relieved by the gaiety of being free from the historic Western compulsion of seeking large and general meanings for small and highly particular lives.


The Triumph of the Therapeutic (1966)

Philip Rieff Quotes

The alternatives with which Freud leaves us are grim only if we view them from the perspective of some past possibility. … The grimness is relieved ...

The alternatives with which Freud leaves us are grim only if we view them from the perspective of some past possibility. … The grimness is relieved ...

The alternatives with which Freud leaves us are grim only if we view them from the perspective of some past possibility. … The grimness is relieved ...

The alternatives with which Freud leaves us are grim only if we view them from the perspective of some past possibility. … The grimness is relieved ...